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…
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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,…
Architecture of Surrender: Neurogenesis, Recovery, & the Science of Change (pt. 1)
“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only…
On Intelligence
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is…
The Emmaus Path: Easter Happens While We Walk It
“Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and pierced the air with his cries: ‘I seek God!…
7 Days for 7 Titles — No More Guile & Jacob’s Ladder (John 1:29-2:1)
“The sequence of days in John 1… is a deliberate reconstruction of the creative week of Genesis 1.” — N.T. Wright, (John for Everyone) In the previous post on John, we…
BOOK EXCERPT: The Truth & Love Of Chaos & Order
We’ve spent centuries caught in a binary argument: Nature versus Nurture. We are neither, and both, yet told we were either the sum of our imperfect nature or the byproduct…
You Already Have Everything – An Addict’s Reflection on 2 Peter 1:3-10
2 Peter 1:3-10 is a passage that smacked me in rehab three years ago. It’s one of those where the writer of Scripture lays out a big picture, offering a…
