I’m starting to realize that the more I’m involved in this process of spiritual purification, the more unholy I am in my humanity. This process of the Christian life isn’t a ritualistic dogma, or a “going through the motions.” This process is a progression that remains more than just a physical offering of appearing spiritual, when in reality I’m just like every other person out there breathing in my humanity and breathing out fragile breathes that twist and turn on the wind made by the insane speed that, like everyone else, I rush through this life. This breathing and twisting, turning and rushing is what I do, because whether I like it or not a breath [...]

Sam Storm once wrote, “Worship is a feast where God is the host, the cook, the waiter and the meal itself.”Let’s face it. There are many feasts out there and for the most part those feasts only fill a certain facet of the hunger of a soul that cries out for something to ease the ache of a craving, yet it never fully satisfies. When we come to the table of Christian Spirituality (in essence Messianic Judaism) we come to a feast where the Creator God invites us saying, “Come to me all who labor and are heavy laden…” As the cook of the meal Christ calls to us, “take my yoke upon you.” As the [...]

Inch by inch. Minute by minute. Day by day. It's odd how things echo for lifetimes that are set into motion by little moments throughout one's life. Though those moments don't last they are sometimes immortalized, immortalized for a lifetime if not for a history of a town, country, generation, or a running stretch of humanity. But the reverberations of a moment in our lives have a tendency to trickle down the brain to our hearts, gathering there the collection of joys, sorrows, and phenomenal ordinarity. Moments aren’t all fleeting though. We have the opportunity for moment to kiss eternity, echoing not a fleeting pebble in a pond, making dinky little rings pushing merely a few [...]

They who seek my life will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth. They will be given over to the sword and become food for jackals. But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God's name will praise him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced. Psalm 63:9-10 Rain. It is raining today like crazy. Literally like crazy. It's as if God's created wonder has cocked its head back in a nasty temper today. As cars weave in and out of Atlanta traffic the sneers of windshield wipers brush back and forth as they seem to agitate the blurring traffic lights and four wheeled steeds jousting each [...]