Book of Common Words

  • To the Unknown God

    To the Unknown God

    Where are you, God? Don’t you see? Can’t you hear? There is so much suffering, injustice, oppression.   It’s happening the world over. There is war, genocide, and…

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  • The Imagination to Testify

    The Imagination to Testify

    I have notebooks full of church curriculum. Bible studies. Sermons. Worship events. I even have the notes for a discipleship class/program I helped put together. I spent a…

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  • The Consistency of Conversion

    The Consistency of Conversion

    A meditation on Acts 9.1-20 and Revelation 5.11-14. How often do we breathe out murder? Violence is our second language—often our first. We respond with dominance, anger, might,…

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  • Ashes and Alleluias, Episode3-Grief of Creation

    Ashes and Alleluias, Episode3-Grief of Creation

    The ache I feel every time something I create is met with silence. Obscurity, truth, and connecting with the right people. One of the best way to support…

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  • Ask for the Body

    Ask for the Body

    The body of the King of Life hung dead on the cross. Violence, fear, and the Roman Empire had executed the Christ, the hope of Israel, indeed the…

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  • Rejoice! The Broken God Calls

    Rejoice! The Broken God Calls

    This is a sermon I wrote for the Llama Pack based on Luke 22.28-40 and 22.14-27. Listen to the sermon here: There are always two processions. One is…

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