Re-presenting God For, as it is written, ‘The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.’ Romans 2:24 I wonder how often any of us think about how well we represent God to the world around us. I know I’m guilty of getting busy and just living my life of faith without …
Author: pastorbradmsc
I am an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene with Catholic background, and a love for the ancient orthodox christianity. I guess you could call me an Orthocathorene...a truly ecumenical follower of Jesus.
The Beauty of the Ashes: A Change of Position
Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, and kneel before the Lord our Maker. Psalm 95:6 Repentance is a major theme of the season of Lent. One of the best ways for me to show my repentance before God is to change my position. Yes, I mean literally change my position before Him. …
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The Beauty of the Ashes: Rainy Days and Mondays
Remember your word to your servant, because you have given me hope. This is my comfort in my trouble, that your promise gives me life. Psalm 119:49-50 “Hangin around, nothin to do but frown, rainy days and Mondays always get me down.” Back in 1971, Karen Carpenter sang these words to the top of the …
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Broken Bones
“…let the bones you have broken rejoice.” Psalm 51:8 I was walking backward into Tommy’s yard while reading the graffiti that was painted on the boxcars that sat on the train tracks beside his back yard. I don’t remember now what the graffiti said because what happened next…well, it was “lights out, Alice!” Tommy’s …
The Beauty of the Ashes: A Poem for the beginning of Lent
For the beauty of the Ashes, For the glory they once revealed, In these no words could ever capture, God’s highest work in me He sealed. For the beauty of the love that fills the world, Even though in anguish with devils filled, Let not my heart ere be defeated, For all is thus, …
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