Starving to get to the Father’s table
In order to get to the Father’s table, we must end the grip that death has on us by teaching us to crave more and more of what cannot satisfy. We must starve to death. Russell Moore, Tempted and Tried:...
View ArticleFaith to confront grave matters
God has not bequeathed us the gift of faith to deal with trivial things but rather to confront grave matters such as: Death, sin, the world and the Devil. For the world is not capable of resisting...
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Sermo Dei: Ash Wednesday Matins
The ashes are not a Sacrament, nor are they a game. A Sacrament is an earthly thing that God attaches to His Word of promise to give us His gifts. Baptism is a Sacrament, because there is an earthly...
View ArticleCorruption has been banished
Now that the common Saviour of all has died on our behalf, we who believe in Christ no longer die, as men died afore time, in fulfillment of the threat of the law. That condemnation has come to an end;...
View ArticleJeering, hitting, and abusing the deposed tyrant
Now that the Savior has raised His body, death is no longer terrible, but all those who believe in Christ tread it underfoot as nothing, and prefer to die rather than to deny their faith in Christ,...
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Easter freedom
Great thought for Easter Wednesday from Russell Moore: In the long run we’re all dead, and in the longer run we’re all raised from the dead. There’s a freedom that comes from seeing that. -Tempted and...
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Sermo Dei: Trinity 3 (Micah 7:18-20)
Who is a God like you? That’s the question asked by the prophet in today’s Old Testament reading. It’s a common question, in and out of Scripture. And it usually is asked with accusation and anger,...
View ArticleDeath: suspension of the law of nature
My mother sent me this quotation from Flannery O’Connor. I don’t know the source, but it’s beautiful: The virgin birth, the incarnation, the resurrection . . . are the true laws of the flesh and the...
View ArticleStations on the Road to Freedom: Death (4th Lent Midweek 2015)
On the morning of April 8, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was being held in a makeshift prison in Schönberg. Some of Bonhoeffer’s fellow prisoners, including a Roman Catholic and an atheist, asked...
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Ash Wednesday 2018
Memory is critical to survival. Remembering where you’ve been, how to navigate, which things are dangerous to eat – memory is very important. Other memories are painful. Abuse, rejection, sins – the...
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