Avoiding Hypocritical Prayer
Getting ready for church this morning and contemplating what I will be praying for and I am reminded of this quote: “There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.” Miroslav Volf Prayer has never been easy for me, I am less of a spiritual person than you might […]
Holy Wednesday – Giotto: The Kiss of Judas
Betrayal by Judas or The Kiss of Judas Today is Holy Wednesday, also known as Spy Wednesday (Good Wednesday and Holy and Great Wednesday). The event commemorated on this day in holy week is the conspiracy between Judas and the Jewish leaders to have Jesus crucified. The following is a devotional based on the work […]
Faith, Doubt, Fear
“For now we see through a glass, darkly…” I have spent many hours in all three categories. Faith The first category is faith. We all believe things. We believe things about reality; we also imagine things that we don’t really know about, but we imagine and believe. I have constructed statements of faith, I have […]
The God Who Sees
I got new glasses today. I started wearing glasses in the fourth grade. Mrs. Takahashi, my fourth grade teacher recommended I get glasses because I was struggling in class to see the blackboard, and at home my parents had to clean the TV of my nose-prints. I can still remember the drive home with my […]