Who is this man?
This is an image of the famous story of Jesus calming the storm (Mt. 8:23-27). I talked about this story a couple of weeks ago in a sermon and this was the question I focused on as we discussed the issue of fear. I love this image. Here you see Jesus, cast [...]
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Here are two images of Jesus in tears. This is something I’ve been thinking about for a couple of reasons lately.
One, I recently finished a novel called, Silence. It’s by Shusaku Endo of Japan, and is an interesting read. It’s about missionaries and their experience with persecution in Japan. The question, will they give up [...]
I love the image of someone having ashes applied to their forehead. This is a nice one, but really it’s more the idea than anything else. Every time I see people coming up to receive ashes, I love just watching their faces. Depnding on their age, background, time in the church, etc, you can see [...]
Has there ever been a time where you just didn’t want to open your Bible or do your devotions?
I know this can happen to us for a lot of reasons. Maybe you’re just tired. Maybe you’re so busy you just don’t feel like the time is there. But there’s another reason that comes up sometimes. [...]
I love this moment and this image from the movie, The Passion of the Christ. The last week I’ve been talking with people about temptation and last night I mentioned this scene. Jesus is in the garden praying to God. And Satan is there tempting him, “It’s too much, you can’t bear the sin of [...]
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So this image is a little focused. If you’re from Messiah, my church, hopefully you recognize it. If you’re from the broader Faith Emergence community, you probably don’t. This is the image that’s been designed as the new logo for Messiah Lutheran Church in Plano, TX. We’ve been talking about it in Bible class and [...]
Another day, another new series. As I was trying to think of another direction to take the blog, I wanted to keep a day that would be visually focused, but I also wanted to keep kind of a devotional nature to Thursdays. So here’s the idea, each week I’ll pick an image that inspires and [...]
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