Weary Warriors
Does this statue look like you? Are you a weary warrior, fighting to stay atop your equally weary mount? This sculpture, called The End of…
Chris Jackson
Pastor Author Teacher
Chris Jackson
Pastor Author Teacher
Essays
Like Jove in Thunder
“He burst forth on the world like Jove in thunder.” I first heard this evocative phrase in my freshman political science class in college when…
Bitter Herbs
Do you remember when you first learned to swallow whole pills instead of having them smashed up and mixed in with your applesauce or some…
The Lord’s Prayer Three Times Daily
The Didache (pronounced did-akh-ay) is a first-century document that reportedly captured and preserved the central teachings of Jesus Christ’s twelve apostles in clear, succinct form.…
Unexplainable but Not Unknowable
There is a difference between things that are unexplainable and unknowable. I cannot explain exactly how love works, but I have been deeply in love…
Quick update about my blog postings and a short-term daily devotional
Hi, my friends! I hope that you are doing okay amid this current international crisis. For the next couple of months, while we wait out…
In Times Like These…
During a bubonic plague outbreak in 1527, the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther gave this pastoral advice: “I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then…
Out-live, out-love, out-think, out-die
It has been said that in the early years of the church, Christians conquered the world of their day by out-living, out-loving, out-thinking, and out-dying…