The Expected and Eventual City
*Originally published on October 28, 2016 in Every Thought Captive, a devotional of the North Texas Presbytery and Park Cities Presbyterian Church. “For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and…
The Interruption of Dying
We are, on the whole, uneasy with Lent. Because we hate being interrupted. It ruins our innate belief in our own self-importance. When we busy ourselves doing life, however we do it, nothing could be quite as irksome as being…
Being Joseph
(This article was originally published in Every Thought Captive, a weekly devotional from Park Cities Presbyterian Church.) “Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came…
The Epiphany of Jesus’ Baptism
“In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens opening and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And…