Divine Codependency: Scapegoating God’s Will & Losing Humanity
There’s a part in Exodus when Moses comes to the Red Sea; Pharaoh’s army is in pursuit, and the people panic. And God answers. But it is not the response…
Bringing Heaven to Earth: The Lord’s Prayer Without Theatrics (Matthew 6:5-15)
“The Lord’s Prayer is the summary of the whole gospel.” — Tertullian *It’s a longer one. Before the Lord’s Prayer existed, there were other models of prayer 1. Prayer was…
Phōtizō: Getting Out of The Cave
One of my favorite Bible stories is the Samaritan Woman at the Well in John 4. While she is unnamed, later traditions called her Photini — The Luminous One — because she…
All My Relations
While writing my book, a conclusion came into sight that brought tools, implications, and direction. One of those was what I called the 1-to-1 Relationship. It is learning to encounter…
God Reveals Mysteries In the Secret Places: Revelation & Our Inner Life
“Mystery is not something you cannot understand; it is something that you can endlessly understand. There is no end to it.” — Richard Rohr The biblical tradition repeatedly moves divine…
Pivot Mental States: The Power of Worship
Worshipping Jesus isn’t nice. It’s good medicine. As I’ve learned with a lot of things, what matters in worship is the how, not so much the what. As a concept,…
Jacob’s Wages: The Cost of Trying Too Hard
There’s a pattern in Jacob’s story, the grandson of Abraham. It’s one that chased me until it brought me to an end. “Grace is not opposed to effort, it is…
The Joy of Knowing Christ (Philippians 3:8-16)
“The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from.” — Dallas Willard, Renovation of the…
Christians Can Use Tarot: A Case for Biblical Symbols & Spiritual Formation
“It seems as if the set of pictures in the Tarot cards were distantly descended from the archetypes of transformation, a view that has been confirmed for me in a…
Atonement With A 1000 Faces: Humanity as the Unified Theory
“The current gospel then becomes a ‘gospel of sin management.’ Transformation of life and character is no part of the redemptive message.” — Dallas Willard A millennia-long battle has been…
