“The wilderness episode for Jesus means suffering transcendently the versatility of death’s aggression against human life.” (William Stringfellow) </p><br /> Read more

I’ve been reading a very meaty book, Alister E. McGrath’s, T. F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography. Torrance argues for 3 levels of theological engagement: 1. Evangelical and Doxological Level: Here, the Christian believer has an experience of the reality of God as a “basic undefined cognition which formally shapes our faith”. It is at this level that God is apprehended “intuitively”, without any real analytical or logical process of thought. It is a meeting, an encounter, an experience with God.... Read more

“Ah, life is terrible, but you can learn to be lucid and dance and be joyful using the very degraded material of your life!” (Richard Foreman, playwright) </p><br /> Read more

So I went out with one of my leaders to help members of our congregation, Peter and Debbie McCready, who are farmers. They grow produce for markets, as well as raise sheep (yes, they’re shepherds!), beef cattle, pigs, and kittens (no, they don’t milk the cats or eat them… the cats are mousers!). We basically harvested pumpkins all day… hundreds of them, some as small as my head and some as big as my exercise ball (which lies dormant in... Read more

“You have no idea of where God is going to engineer your circumstances, no knowledge of what strain is going to be put on you either at home or abroad, and if you waste your time in over-active energies instead of getting into soak on the great fundamental truths of God’s Redemption, you will snap when the strain comes; but if this time of soaking before God is being spent in getting rooted and grounded in God on the unpractical... Read more

AND he lives in Houston! I got this lead from my fellow-blogger over at Smartpastor. Click here for proof! Read more