Geoffrey Holsclaw
Something surprising happens in a wedding ceremony. The bride and groom, after great preparation and full of love for each other, step forward to be united in marriage. And at the climax of that ceremony, they put conditions on their love for each other. These conditions are exchanged as vows. These vows take the unconditional […]
We constantly stumble over the word—faith. How do we know we have it? What does it mean to lose it? But really, faith is weirder than we think. And there is one thing we often misunderstand about faith. We are almost done with our Faith Hacking series. Previously we covered… Making room for the God who […]
Why Still So Tired? For all the weary and over-burdened, we were told that if we followed Jesus then his “yoke would be easy and his burden would be light” (Matt. 11:28-30). But often times we don’t feel that way. We haven’t found that kind of rest in Jesus. We feel still feel disconnected, tired, […]
Think before you act. Don’t just act. Don’t just react. Slow down, think it through, reflect and plan. We are all told this. It’s what I tell me kids. But is this right? Thought wastes time. It’s dangerous. Thought takes time. And it takes energy. The more you think the more blood your brain needs, […]
For the poor you will always have with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish: but you will not always have me. (Mark 14:7) From crude realism to hopeless resignation, this quote from Jesus is confusing at best and disheartening at worst. What? So poverty and inequality are just a fact […]
Tim Challies ended a recent post criticizing the practice of Lectio Divina by saying, “This, then, is a danger in Lectio Divina, that it may teach us to approach the text subjectively rather than objectively.” But what is the big deal about reading the text subjectively as opposed to objectively? 3 Subjects of Scripture It is […]
