In our culture “empty” is almost always a negative state of being. Empty is how we describe a car which has run out gas, or a life which has been rendered hollow through meaningless pursuits. Emptiness is what we feel when we look into the abyss and wonder, “Is this really all there is to…
Tag: Lent2016
Shadow
A shadow is typically described as the full, or partial blockage of a light-source due to an intervening object. This is technically true, but I like to think of shadows as something more. Shadows are hints of an object’s existence, only evidenced by an absence. How much of our lives are evidenced the same way?…
Broken
The word “broken” has an almost exclusively negative connotation in our culture. Broken in our popular delusion, is equated with “weak.” In a world of mis-applied social-Darwinism, where “only the strong survive,” this is the last adjective someone wants applied to their character! Broken, however, also has a redemptive aspect. When our pride is broken…
Healing
This past Friday and Saturday our youth group participated in Worldvision’s 30 Hour Famine. The event calls people to forego food for 30 hours, for which they raise funds to give toward worldwide hunger relief 1. During these 30 hours participants learn about the impact of hunger and poverty, do a service project, and through…
Practice
Most of the skills which I practice are on my computer, and pictures of me sitting at my computer don’t seem that interesting to me. So today I partially share the result from my hours of practice with Apple’s Motion. This is a still from a title sequence I created as part of Central’s 30…
Mystery
Pastoring, in my mind, is a mysterious vocation. We stand between the light of comfort and the darkness of sorrow. We shepherd people out of this world, and into new life. We proclaim a message of great power, which can only be expressed in this world through weakness. When we at our best as leaders,…
