Sublime

You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.

You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.

For a wise articulation of this point, see Michael Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014).

Now here’s the crucial insight for Christian formation and discipleship: not only is this learning-by-practice the way our hearts are correctly calibrated, but it is also the way our loves and longings are misdirected and miscalibrated—not because our intellect has been hijacked by bad ideas but because our desires have been captivated by rival vis

Now here’s the crucial insight for Christian formation and discipleship: not only is this learning-by-practice the way our hearts are correctly calibrated, but it is also the way our loves and longings are misdirected and miscalibrated—not because our intellect has been hijacked by bad ideas but because our desires have been captivated by rival vis

Worship isn’t just something we do; it is where God does something to us. Worship is the heart of discipleship because it is the gymnasium in which God retrains our hearts.

The cadences of worship are the rhythms where we learn to be free.

Christian worship is the feast where we acquire new hungers—for God and for what God desires—and are then sent into his creation to act accordingly.