A man stands on a a rock ledge, looking out across a sea of clouds. Black, blue and gray arrows drawn onto the photo point in all different directions

The enemies of rest

I’ve updated Return to Your Rest, and included a chapter about enemies of rest I have faced. May God give us courage to rise up in the face of all that fights against it - and to return to rest.

Frog at edge of water, looking at camera and blending in with the dark, mottled background

Sort of like frog gigging: How religion kills rest

Today where you live, religiosity slaughters Sabbath by the very way it tries to keep it. But when people desperate for rest leave the comfort of religious exhaustion and stumble toward God himself, Sabbath remains – and the Lord of Real Rest revives them.

A tumble of books, lying open on grass, pages fanned

The people I quote

  • Post category:Living Life
  • Post last modified:November 9, 2023

Refusing to listen to different views robs us of the opportunity to learn, to grow, to “sharpen” one another, to love one another. So it’s important and wise to humble ourselves to listen to others. It’s also important and wise to seek discernment from God as we do.

Brown leaves on gray stone

Search for brown November

  • Post category:Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:March 21, 2024

Most likely, none of us would choose brown and gray all year long. But if we don’t stop to appreciate what God has made beautiful in this time, we may get all our presents and miss all our moments.

Interesting door handle on a dark door, opening to a hazy, but very green, world

And the future starts now

Even in suffering, even in exile, may you find growing within you: A life energetic and blazing with holiness, conceived by God himself. Life healed and whole. Laughter and singing. Genuine faith proved genuine. Living hope. One-anothering love. A future that starts now.

The wedding dance of a bride and groom

Dance with me, O Lover of my soul

Learning to dance with God means being vulnerable, flexible, brave, as he frees us from the paralysis of the religious and teaches us to move in sync with him.

Hand held out, open, in the light - letting go of the sand falling through its fingers

I let go

"I let go of all I have just to have all of You." - A song that has encouraged me in the night, "Worth It All," Meredith Andrews

Guys in green t-shirts pull with great determination on a tug-of-war rope.

A decisive letting go

Psalm 46:10 says, "Be still, and know that I am God." But the Hebrew verb translated "be still" actually means: "Decisively let go, or abruptly cease, something strenuous you are doing." It urges me to let go of the tug-of-war rope called enmeshment, that robs me of identity and intimacy.