Passion · Week 1 · Saturday Recap Passion I spent this whole week reading about passion and thinking about the fact that my sons can tell. The Week in Review We started on Sunday with the six-week fire, the one…
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Embers Apart Go Out
Passion · Week 1 · Friday Embers Apart Go Out He told himself he was just taking a season off. That was nineteen months ago. It started honestly enough, which is how most of these start. A brutal stretch at…
Come Out of Hiding
Passion · Week 1 · Thursday Come Out of Hiding He stopped praying the same week he did the thing he still cannot say out loud. He is twenty, first year out of the house, and he did not decide…
Cooled by Degrees
Passion · Week 1 · Wednesday Cooled by Degrees Nobody in that house ever decided to stop praying. It simply stopped happening. There was no argument about it. No crisis of faith, no offense at the church, nobody storming out…
The Love You Had at First
Passion · Week 1 · Tuesday The Love You Had at First He was doing everything right, and his wife told him she missed him anyway. Ten years in. He provided, and provided well. He was faithful, and had never…
Is This Even Available?
Passion · Week 1 · Monday Is This Even Available? Her son came home from camp lit up like a bonfire, and the first thing she felt was not joy. It was envy. He prayed out loud in the car…
The Sustained Burn
Passion · Week 1 · Sunday The Sustained Burn He came home from that weekend genuinely on fire, and six weeks later the alarm was off again. Nothing dramatic happened, and that is the part worth sitting with. He did…
What I Am Taking Into Next Week
Rooted / Week 4 / Recap What I Am Taking Into Next Week I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.— Philippians 3:14 (ESV) I have spent a lot of…
The Answer Costs Something
Rooted / Week 4 / Prayer The Answer Costs Something And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”— Isaiah 6:8 (ESV)…
Nine Years in the Same Seat
Rooted / Week 4 / His Church Nine Years in the Same Seat For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath,…