sacred journeys

We don’t live in south Los Angeles, but every time you drive to LAX, or go past downtown, or take the Metro to Long Beach — you are going through, or close to south-central (even though that is not the politically correct way to call south LA these days).
Anyway, read this article today in […]

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
–G.K. Chesterton

A fantastic article in First Things with Pastor Tim Keller regarding his book ‘A Reason for God’

One long quote from the article:
I don’t mention it in [The Reason for God], but I think there are always doubts that, if you come to grips with them—I think there’s doubts that you have, that you […]

…sorry for the absence. Voxtropolis has had major issues / upgrades / etc. lately, and every time I have tried to log on to post something this past week, I have been unable to….. arghhhhhh.
Anyway, a St. Patrick’s Day prayer for you ( a little late)
Peace between neighbors
Peace between kindred
Peace between lovers,
In the […]

I am “one who is on the way, though not necessarily very far along it, and who has at least some dim and half-baked idea of Who to thank” -Frederick Buechner

“Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the succesful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus’ costly grace.” — Tim Keller

We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction. - character Jack Ziegler, in The Emperor of Ocean […]

“….we are wanting to see the shalom of God breaking out into the world in God’s people.’’

A photo from where we meet at Kairos — overlooking our neighborhood of Hollywood / Los Angeles.

” ….I am convinced there is no benefit in wanting things to be the way they used to be. God’s purpose and plan are always ahead of us. His grace is sufficient….” (from the book SELAH by Nancy Carmichael)

In the Christian context, we do not mean by a “mystery” merely that which is baffling and mysterious, an enigma or insoluble problem. A mystery is, on the contrary, something that is revealed for our understanding, but which we never understand exhaustively because it leads into the depth or the darkness of God. The eyes […]