Posts Tagged "Jesus"
Coffee Stained Salvation
Coffee Stained Salvation by Parke Ladd From three years of caffeinated mornings spent on the run–chased by time, a lingering boss and bills still unpaid–dark, circular stains from overflowing clay coffee cups placed atop the metal, blue roof of his 4-door sedan, wipe away in the wind as he drives this morning to work. He cracks his window open to the kind of temperature and...
Read MoreLife, Death and Mozambique
We all live, and we all die; passing quickly from this existence to the next, tomorrow is never guaranteed. Life, but a breath; a faint whisper of a word strumming the vocal cords of eternity; a blink of an eye, look away and it’s gone. Suddenly, life, once fully figured and bloody upon this earth, is now but a shadowy mystery; a fading memory sent away with passing days. Death, the ultimate...
Read MoreWhispers Under the Tree
You are inexpressible. My attempts at labeling your presence are futilely distressing; my bid to title, intensely exhausting. Though a myriad of paths spread wide before me, vast and intertwined, my heart is captivated by your love alone. A course set straight towards discovery, a revelation of worship, I run, unashamed, to behold the mystery of your mercy. Breathe on me. Envelope me in the...
Read MoreTrue Love: A Most Dangerous Endeavor
Tame love, willingly set upon common demonstrations, comfortably arranged within the structural confines of similarly positioned friends and followers, is paving an apathy infused path toward limited compassion and self-righteous indignation. Our love, distracted by self-doubt, greed and personal rejection, has become a front for creating associations instead of disciples, acquaintances instead...
Read MoreHow to Fake Friendships With Church Newcomers and Still Keep Your Real Friends
Let’s face it, there are people in our lives whom we consider to be our friends, and then there are people we don’t care about. We maintain and regulate our few, coagulated homies like Mr. Rogers used to maintain his golden, button-up sweater and blue suede shoes–daily and exclusively–the same, basic outfit every single show. Walking into a church for the first time on a Sunday...
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