Sublime

Restorying Your Life

I hope your jagged edges are beginning to smooth, allowing you to feel the presence of Jesus with you in every ordinary moment. I hope these words are creating space for your soul to breathe so that you can name the unnamed things within you and discern your next right thing in love. I hope your narrative of God is shaping into one that is more tru

Suppose, as in fairy tales of the shapechangers, the body is a God in its own right, a teacher, a mentor, a certified guide?

In our thirst for deeply personal

comparison is the thief of joy, but here it seems that comparison is also the thief of faith.

Without a servant’s heart, you will be tempted to misuse your shape for personal gain.

It’s not just a matter of finally settling down or coming to the end of the road. We find rest because we are found; we make it home because someone comes to get us.

informing a theology of the Christian life as one of migration, a quest for a home one has never seen. Joy is arriving at the home you’ve never been to.

Herein is the justification for the sin-prone pastor (by which I mean “pastor”): because of Christ’s perfect work on your behalf, your failure, your daily anxiety, your unwillingness, your stress, your sin, your brokenness, your ineptitude, your ignorance, your awfulness, your regrets, your pride, and your arrogance are no match for the deep and ab