Does God know joy? Can you picture it? I am reading these days the story of Jayber Crow*, a fictitious barber in small town Kentucky in the nostalgic past. He is the creation of Wendell Berry–author, nature-lover, and farmer. Berry is also a bit of a poet. I sat with my little lunch catching the […]
What joy for those whose record the LORD has cleared of sin, whose lives are lived in complete honesty! If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we […]
The king said to the girl, “Ask me for anything you want, and I’ll give it to you.” And he promised her with an oath, “Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom.” She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?”— Then James and John, the […]
Home now from Texas, reflecting on our time there (visiting Rachel and attending a conference at Capernwray’s His Hill school), collecting my thoughts…catching my breath for the “Christmas season”. It will be a very different one this year. The familiar tunes playing in my ear this afternoon have a melancholy pull—reminding me of Christmases past […]
My thoughts run hither and yon tonight, scrambling to summarize my week’s ponderings. I think they’ve run in a big circle actually, starting with an excellent message built on this thesis:What the world needs most to see in the church is ‘our indomitable joy in suffering and in sorrows’*. (John Piper) They already know how to be […]