A joyful, if challenging, passage from Heschel's "The Sabbath" for your Sabbath day: He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of…

I remember the first time I sat down to actually READ Psalm 119.  I was in grade school at the Christian school I attended.  Maybe 5th grade or so.  I…

I am an incurable "Bible guy." I love dogmatic and historical theology.  And I love "talking shop" with other people who love those things. But nothing gives me joy like…

2 Timothy.  A favorite of mine.  From a "father" (Paul) to a "son" (Timothy). An old Paul, grizzled and weatherbeaten, imprisoned, standing at the threshold of life's end.  He has…

I took a break from our Hebrews series at Bloom last night to give a talk on something that I think is crucially important for our growth - experiences of disillusionment.…

The Jewish scholar Abraham Heschel wrote a book in the last century called "The Sabbath".  A marvelous book which I'd highly encourage you to read... richly suggestive for Christian thought…

A friend of mine recently posted this interview on facebook: Eugene Peterson on Sabbath It's an hour long interview between Eugene Peterson and Gabe Lyons which focuses on the role…

A passage that has always moved me...  6 this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a teacher well versed in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of…