Sitting Under the Kudzu Vine

So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head.

Author: Randy Davis

American Culture / Baptists / Bible / Christian Life / Christian Spirituality / Church / Church Decline / Church in Crisis / Culture / Pastoral Ministry / Pastors / Spiritual Awakening / Worship

JOINING THE REVOLUTION

I read another article on the decline of the pastoral ministry and the hardship that pastors are experiencing.  I am sensitive to such articles, in part, because of what has happened to me while trying to...

A sense of Place / C. S.Lewis / Eugene Peterson / Grace / Holy Desire / Spiritual Disciplines / Thinking About God

A Stubborn Sense of Place: Hebrews 11: 8-16

I imagine that Abraham thought of home, not to go back there, but because it was the only measure he had in his experience from which he could imagine the future. That’s the way we are. We only have our past and it is in terms of the best of those times that we think about the future. How else can we think of heaven except in terms of the past?