Digging A Deeper Well

This seems to be the season of “more” in many churches.  Either folks want more, need more, or lament they don’t have more. What we really need to thrive are more young people. Or young families. Or more babies and kids (especially the kind that don’t make noise...

Somewhere along the way, most of us have heard part of the myth of Icarus. The part we have heard usually involves the ingenious inventor Daedalus and his son Icarus, who are trapped together on the island of Crete.  Seeking a way off the island, Daedalus crafts wings for...

  The mind fits the world and shapes it as a river fits and shapes its own banks. -Annie Dillard (Living by Fiction) I would love to live  Like a river flows,  Carried by the surprise  Of its own unfolding.  -John O’Donohue (“Fluent”) Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do...

In the last four verses of Psalm 85, we read: Love and faithfulness meet together;     righteousness and peace kiss each other. Faithfulness springs forth from the earth,     and righteousness looks down from heaven. The Lord will indeed give what is good,     and our land will yield its harvest. Righteousness goes before the Lord     and prepares the way for God’s...

By now you may have seen the ill-fated Apple ad that accompanied the release of their new iPad.  Entitled “Crush,” it showed artistic tools – musical instruments, paint and canvas, and all manner of whimsical creativity – literally being crushed into the “thinnest iPad yet.” ...

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