Only Fools Fall In Love (Last Letter, First Word)
You get the phone call from your best friend saying he's driven into a ditch, and only once you're 30min. outside of town does he call...
Going Out On a Limb Here (Palms)
You know, real love is risky -saying things easier left unsaid, doing things that could look foolish- with the threat of rejection,...
Can We Start Over... (Love Letter 5)
Yes. This love letter announces nothing less than new creation, Genesis 1 continued into this moment with you: "Have mercy on me, O God,...
Can You Picture Us? (Love Letter 4)
We have no signs in the ancient world of imagination quite like the jewish prophets, but even they had only conceived of resurrection as...
Who'd You Think I Was? (Love Letter 3)
Not a starry-eyed prophet, not an edgy zealot, but the Word of God, the Creator of the cosmos who comes chasing after you like an...
No Fairytale... (Love Letter 2)
"Heaven and Earth" is not a biblical phrase meaning "LaLa Land and Science Land;" nor is it labeling two different existences as "real...
That Was Humiliating... (Love Letter 1)
... the most mortifying thing you’ve ever experienced, the shame of not being enough, the nakedness of who you are, exposed in the...
Be Mine (Ash and All)
This is the Valentines no one can give you. Any real relationship between us has to have honesty, a willingness to look at the hard stuff...
Transfiguration
Listen, "It's all one," he says. And it's all actively His: The mighty one, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of...
Baptism
If days are pages in the story of existence, what page number are we on today? What page # was it when: John the Baptizer appeared in the...