O my all-merciful God and Lord, Jesus Christ, full of pity: Through Your great love You came down and became incarnate in order to save everyone. O Savior, I ask You to save me by Your grace! If You save anyone because of their works, that would not be grace but only reward of duty, …
James Tissot, Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness
In Memoriam: Evelyne Reisacher
First, three snapshots. It is 2007. My wife, Kelly, and I are huddled in a small room in the Mediterranean at a gathering of workers in the Muslim world, hearing from a group of believers in North Africa. In the midst of this group, two women, one from North Africa and another from France speak …
C S Lewis on the moment before damnation
One of my favorite works by C. S. Lewis is The Great Divorce, which is awkwardly billed on the paperback cover as "a fantastic bus ride from hell to heaven—a roundtrip for some but not for others." Lewis' conviction in that book, which he expresses elsewhere, is that hell is the self-conscious decision to resist heaven …
Challenges to the Hunger to Know
This past weekend at Eastbrook, I explored the hunger that each of us have to know and be known as part of our Hungry for God sermon series. One aspect of this that I did not really get to explore as much as I had hoped was some of the challenges that we encounter with …
