The Best Birthday Gift is Live Music!
My amazing wife is giving me the greatest gift I can think of for my 40th birthday: the chance to share the beauty and joy of dancing and swaying, eating and […]
Weekly Dig (Acts 16; Jn 14 & 5)
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTERTIDE | Acts 16:9-15; John 14:23-29; 5:1-9 Are You Open? by Jeremy Berg Most of us have seen Warren Sallman’s famous painting Christ at Heart’s Door based […]
Peter Bjorn: Shining Like a Star (and van Gogh)
“And a child shall lead them.” Isaiah 11:6 Our 7-year old, Peter Bjorn, made this precious cityscape that really caught my eye. It reminds me of a passage from Philippians. […]
Weekly Dig (John 13:31-35)
How can such beauty come out of a situation so ugly? How can grace withstand such a tidal wave of heartlessness? How can love flow so freely between these river banks of betrayal?
Faces Downcast to Eyes Opened
Sitting around that table the hidden face of God suddenly becomes visible. The stranger becomes a dear friend. The empty hole in our heart is suddenly filled. The darkness is vanquished by piercing light. Hope is resurrected to dance a jig on the corpse of Despair. At that table the lump in our throat is replaced by an irresistible burning in our heart.
Weekly Dig (Acts 9:36-43)
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER| Acts 9:36-43 Garage Sale Theology by Jeremy Berg Spring time in the upper midwest brings many good things back from the icy clutches of winter—including garage […]
Dandelions: A Modernized Parable
Originally posted on DAILY ILLUMINATION | Jeremy Berg:
When Sarah was a little girl, she loved to dance and twirl barefooted across the soft green grass of her childhood home and…
Cursing the Fall
A repost from 2008. I was doing the annual spring yard clean-up this past weekend. My wife had done most of the raking and left them in neat piles for […]
Angels in the Desert
“Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it. How awesome is this place!” (Genesis 28:16-17) One of my all-time favorite stories in the Bible is about Jacob […]
