This has been the hardest year of my life. Today our twin boy and girl turn one, and it has a sort solemnity that isn’t familiar at one-year-old birthdays. Certainly others have had harder years, but relative comparison never has seemed like a good comforter. We have been asked at the 20 week ultrasound if we…
“Desire is a gift from God to feel passionately,” says Craig Bartholomew. Genesis 2 ends with man, woman and even the earth bubbling up with desire. God creates woman for the man, and his desire for her is so strong that he breaks out in song: “This is at last bone of my bones and flesh…
Five years ago, I wrote this to my bride on the day of our marriage covenant ceremony. Looking back on these words it is a sweet reminder not simply of the beauty of marriage but of the glory of the reality to which marriage points—Christ and the church. I share it with you in the…
If I am sure of anything about the character of God, it’s that I will never be able to balance the tensions He so perfectly represents. To begin, the tension of His justice and His mercy, His righteousness and His grace. AW Tozer reminded us that “we should banish from our minds forever the common…
We are far too easily pleased. Such was C.S. Lewis’ conclusion of the sinful human heart’s obsessive preoccupation with things lesser than the surpassingly greater and supremely satisfying glory of God. A wise man, no doubt, but it could also be said that we are far too difficult to please. My wife grew up in…
Everything his light does to me is such a beautiful eulogy. Propaganda & Beautiful Eulogy