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Meat and Potatoes

Rightly Handling the Word of Truth in Its Internal Variance of Texture & Taste Your words were found, and I ate them, And your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, For I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts. (Jeremiah 15:16) There is a Scripturally warranted…
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Hymn of Joy – Easter Day

This entry is part 25 of 25 in the series A Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary

Alleluia, alleluia! Hearts to heaven and voices raise: sing to God a hymn of gladness, sing to God a hymn of praise. He, who on the cross a victim, for the world’s salvation bled, Jesus Christ, the King of glory, now is risen from the dead. Hear the roar of the earth quaking and the…
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Questions – Easter Even (Holy Saturday)

This entry is part 24 of 25 in the series A Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary

The incarnation of Jesus raises many questions. Who is this man? Who is the Son of Man? Why did the God-man die? And perhaps most commonly on Holy Saturday, where was Jesus on the evening of Good Friday until Easter morn? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified…
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O Sacred Head, Embodied Sacrifice – Good Friday

This entry is part 23 of 25 in the series A Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary

O sacred head, sore wounded, defiled and put to scorn; O kingly head surrounded with mocking crown of thorn: What sorrow mars thy grandeur? Can death thy bloom deflower? O countenance whose splendor the hosts of heaven adore! The Anglican Church of North America and orthodox Global Anglicans profess the 1662 Book of Common Prayer…
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At a Performance of Bach’s St. John Passion

The night outside the concert hall is cold. The audience arriving? Most are old. Some push their walkers. Many walk with canes. Some are in wheelchairs. Nobody complains, For they’ve been promised bodies remade, new. How can that be? The music holds a clue. They’ll hear a sound they hope that heaven makes, A passion…
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Book Review: “What Still Divides Us”

What Still Divides Us: The Differences Between Protestants and Roman Catholics. By Josh Maloney. San Diego: Sola Media, 2025. 74 pp. Free Ministry Resource (paperback). When I first started listening to podcasts about a decade ago, The White Horse Inn was already a longtime veteran in Christian digital media. As described by their website, their…
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Palm Sunday at the Pentecostal Church

After Richard Crashaw. Balaam’s donkey spoke but the Lord’s did not— And now I tell ya, I wandered long about that there, Pastor said, and this, his lips popped, is what I got. He pondered the difference, talked billy and mare, Then he stopped. His tongue clicked against his front teeth hard. Hardly looking for…
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Images of the Christian Town

I was finally able to fulfill a longtime dream of mine to visit Germany. Bavaria, in particular. Me and my travel companions, of course, visited Neuschwanstein castle like the tourists we are, and then the small town of Fussen not far from it. As we walked around the old town, a time capsule of an…
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Love the Sin and Hate the Sinner

Disclaimer: This poem contains adult themes. Reader discretion is advised. Now is it sanctity or is it fear That moves a man in public to declare Forgiveness? Is it love, and is it love? When bodies lie but scarcely cold, and words Are said, are we so holy, or are we Just ordinary, moved by…

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