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the sweet chariot: September 2013
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013. And the more I've thought about it, the more it's true. I long for the freedom of love that pursues me. The freedom of love that requires nothing but offers peace, rest, security, help. Love that invites me over for dinner, just to have dinner, and be with me. And I knew something further, as soon as I recognized this unmet desire. I knew that what I desired was exactly that which Christ offered. Wasn't that the love of God? 8220; As a deer pants for flowing streams,. 8220; W...
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the sweet chariot: April 2015
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Saturday, April 25, 2015. The Fear and the Confidence. 8220;I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? He calls them His friends, the 12 and the others who followed. He tells them to fear not the sufferings of this life, nor those of death. Saturday, April 18, 2015.
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the sweet chariot: March 2014
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Saturday, March 29, 2014. I remember bridge jumping during one spring break in college. It was an incredibly dumb thing to do, I know. Many levels of dumb involved. But I remember the anxious waiting beforehand, wondering who would jump first. A lot of personal danger might be avoided if someone else proved the possibility first. I went second, and was quite grateful for the first guy. I was reading Joshua 3 during my lunch break, when I came across this paragraph:. I think, in Joshua 3, we see the pries...
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the sweet chariot: January 2015
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015. And here I find myself, between Aristotelian and Platonic logic, as I consider one to whom I am attracted. This person is beautiful, indeed. We share common interests, common joys. We hold a common faith, and a common teleology. Our friends find us a good fit, as do we find ourselves. Can you die and be resurrected? Can you set aside all things and become new? What of a God that will not rent His people, but Who has purchased them outright? Tuesday, January 20, 2015. Peter wa...
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the sweet chariot: October 2014
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Friday, October 17, 2014. Prophecy, Exactitude, and Short Fiction. During my senior year I took several short story classes in college. Had I taken them sooner, I would have been an English major. In English, as in Sociology, students study human nature, philosophy, culture and social interaction- but the reading is infinitely more interesting. The reader of what was to come at all. Instead, foreshadowing was most powerfully used when the author sought to prepare. To the real thing. In fact, these posts ...
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the sweet chariot: July 2014
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Friday, July 11, 2014. When the man saw that he did not prevail agains Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. . The sun rose upon him. limping because of his hip. But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me." And he answered, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.". You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? But what if He did? 1 Corinthians 1.23-25. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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the sweet chariot: June 2014
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Saturday, June 28, 2014. He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan). 1 Kings 18.2. Do they bear in us true love for the true God, and love for His people? If not, it's time to kill the snake. It was never meant to be the point- it was always meant to point to Jesus. Monday, June 23, 2014. To Fix and to Heal. And when I ...
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the sweet chariot: February 2015
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Friday, February 27, 2015. Reading Luke 5 this morning. You tell your friends to push out into deep water, and to let down their nets. They have let their nets down before. They have toiled all night. The deep has been closed to them, and their efforts fruitless. You say, go back. Return to what has never born fruit. Set yourself once more into vulnerability, and wait. See what I will do. How should I trust? All has ended in vanity, all in futility. I am tired, and weighed down with fears and doubts.
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the sweet chariot: August 2014
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Friday, August 1, 2014. Acceptance, Endurance, and Joy. I expect storms in the Christian faith. It was through suffering that the Son of God won our redemption, and His closest friends soon followed Him through it. And so when faced with storms, when faced with suffering or doubt or frustration, I am quick to accept these things as normal. I sing with the hymnwriter:. Why should I complain, Of want or distress. He told me no less*. And worst of all, I realize that it has been a very long time since I las...
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the sweet chariot: September 2014
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Saturday, September 6, 2014. Praying in Church, or What I Have to Prove. I've felt called to ministry for a long time. In eighth grade I wanted to be a park ranger. But by ninth, I was looking towards youth ministry. And now I am in ministry, full time. And I see my desires for the gospel matched for desire for my own recognition and support. I am not a humble man, but self centered and introspective. And this is why it is harder for me to pray in a church job than it was for me to pray at Kudu. All that...
