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 “Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools”
Beloved friends, fellow sojourners … if you are sick with sin, then please run to the great physician and confess to Him your great need. We will never be a community without sin, but let’s live with the freedom of people who have no need for secrets.
The One About Abigail, Identity and How Lame Sin Actually Is
Before we are prone to sin we first have to forget who we are in Christ! When we are able to remember that we are holy, and cherished, and beloved by God, and that we have been adopted into His family as sons and daughters who get to serve as priests of His great Kingdom, well then, sin seems … beneath us, unfitting for us to trifle with, unworthy of our attention and distraction.