Letters to a Congregation
Every Thursday I write a pastoral letter to the west congregation of The Austin Stone Community Church. These letters are simple, pastoral musings on what it looks like to live a life that is attentive to God in the midst of a shared context.
The One About Weddings, Wine, and The Mixed Bag of Being a Person
People are incredible. People are also the worst. What a wonderfully, messy, potential and risk-riddled endeavor it is to be a human being.
The One About the Wisdom of Living As If You Are Dying
In the day to day distraction of life, I tend to forget that I am going to die.
In the day to day distraction of life, I also tend to forget that I will be resurrected to live forever.
The reminder of those two realities helps me to remember that I shouldn’t waste time!
The One About Paul, Being a Person, and the Ordinariness of Life
Sometimes I wish that there was a way to escape the humanness of my own humanity. Don’t get me wrong, I like being a person, as we really are incredible creatures, but, part of my human experience (an inordinately large part) involves running into my own limitations, weaknesses, frailties, failures and repetitive cycles of everyday life that are far too dull for anyone to want to see.