Sublime

Who are we? We are thinkers—academics, writers and readers. What is wrong? The problem is an ineffectual, “disembodied” Christianity, one that makes little difference in culture or even, all too often, in the life choices of its adherents. Yet this is subtly rewritten into a fundamentally intellectual problem, that of insufficient attention to or

“To desire the aid of grace is the beginning of grace.”

What is it, then, that we’re talking about when we say that we are all worshipers? Well, this means that we all attach our identity, our hopes and dreams, our inner sense of well-being, and our meaning and purpose to something. We all give the functional control of our hearts to something. We all live after something. We all tend to surrender to

God is triune, and therefore love, friendship, and community are intrinsic to him and at the heart of all reality.

When life seems out of control, it’s so easy to forget that Jesus Christ rules over all things for his glory and for your good. It’s so easy to forget who you are and look for identity elsewhere, So God has ordained that we should gather again and again to remember again and again who we are and what we have been given. His church is a tool of

“On reflection,” confesses Eugene Peterson, “I realized that I had become busy, a bastard form of ambition.”

Worship is not something we do only in formal religious settings once a week. God designed us to be worshipers. Everything we do is the product of worship. We are always giving our hearts to something, and if it’s not God, it’s something God created.

Such worship does not, of course, need to wait till we reach our eternal home. It is the goal of pilgrimage for every day, as the word of God privately ministers to us its ever-deepening treasures of the revelation of God. It is the ideal to strive after when we join our fellow pilgrims in public worship on the Lord's day.

The soul’s hunger for peace is a longing for a kind of rest from anxiety and frantic pursuits—it is to rest in God.