In silence, we come to rest in the ineffable presence of God and come to be patient with God’s own silence. It is in our silence, at the point of exhaustion, that our questions simply melt away, and true rest is found.
Prayer in the Night – Give Rest to the Weary: Weakness and Silence, pt.2 Read More »
The promise that Jesus makes to us is that in our weariness, he will give us rest, and we will find our rest within him.
Prayer in the Night – Give Rest to the Weary: Weakness and Silence, pt.1 Read More »
We do not simply have bodies, we are bodies. Pain, pleasure, trauma, and anguish are embodied states.
Prayer in the Night – Tend the Sick, Lord Christ: Embodiment, pt.1 Read More »
Rev. Warren invites us to see how the daily act of going to sleep is a spiritual practice of dying in Christ. The benefits of sleep come about when we surrender our own will, and the same is achieved in Jesus.
“Our work – whether paid or not, drudgery or not, skilled or common – makes a difference. Done well, it adds truth, beauty, and goodness to the world.” Again, our work is part of God’s work.
Prayer in the Night – Those Who Work: Restoration, pt.1 Read More »
Watching is a craft to develop. To watch is to wait, patiently. Watching implies attention, yearning, and hope. If the fear in the night tells us that grace will not be enough, then in watching we must be attentive to the grace that is there.
Prayer in the Night – Those Who Watch: Attention Read More »
Years after completing our study on Ecclesiastes, I ran across a blog post by Richard Beck at Experimental Theology concerning how Ecclesiastes fits within the Hebrew canon. This post is reproduced here.
Ecclesiastes – A Post-Script Read More »
The question, therefore, that we must face is “How do we trust a God who does not stop [bad things] from happening? How do we dare ask him to keep watch?”
Prayer in the Night – Keep Watch, Dear Lord: Pain and Presence, pt.1 Read More »
Therefore, if the Greek is simply understood differently, then the goats do not go into an “eternal punishment” (which itself is somewhat a contradiction since no one can learn from the punishment if it is eternal) but they are banished into “an age of correction.”
Robert Capon – Parable of the Last Judgment (reimagined) Read More »
