There is a high level of irony at work in the moments of Christ’s death at Calvary. To fully understand the irony, we must grasp that it is the moment of Christ painful death on the cross that Jesus’s Messiahship comes to a head. This is the moment...
It seems counter-intuitive to think of the holy life as one of rest. Most often we associate spiritual discipline and long-suffering with the way of the holy life, and indeed, the holy life demands them. John Wesley once said, Vain hope! that a...
As I have been working on my Paradox manuscript and posting bits and pieces of it here, I wanted to share something I read by O. Chambers just this morning. Chambers had the gift of clarity, precision, and brevity. On this very topic, he writes...