All the things

After John 1:1-14 

All the things

the word is:

The word is spoken.

The word is thought.

The word is felt.

The word is experienced.

The word is heard.

The word is read.

The word is shouted.

The word is understood.

The word is convicting.

The word is illuminating.

The word is judging.

The word is saving.

The word is enlightening.

The word is redeeming.

The word is creative.

The word is stabilizing.

The word was in the beginning.

The word is born.

The word always was.

The word always is.

 

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Some Friday Readings

 

Reason and Faith – poem by Adam Mickiewicz at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).

 

Who’s Afraid of Romans 1? – Andy Hood at Mere Orthodoxy.

 

What Matters Most: The Little Things – poem by Joy Lenton at Poetry Joy.

A sermon, a letter

After Hebrews 1:1-4 

A sermon, a letter

spoken first, then

written, or written

first, then spoken.

How the word is

heard can change;

as with prophets

of old, followed

by silence, as if

the world is 

experiencing

a collective intake

of breath, a gasp,

at what comes,

the son and heir,

the radiance,

the glow of glory,

bearing the exact

imprint of his father,

holding up the universe.

The heir purifies, first,

then sits at the right

hand. The heir is 

the letter; the heir is

the sermon. 

 

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Some Sunday Readings

 

‘Frozen for Stars’ and ‘A Hope Beyond the Moon Europa’ – poems by J.J. Brinski at Rabbit Room Poetry.

 

Christendom After Comcast – John Ehrett at Ad Fontes.

 

When the Walk Becomes a Crawl: One of the Most Hopeful Reminders I’ve Read about Sanctification – Justin Taylor.

 

The Neurodivergent Believer – Allyson Reid at Gospel-Centered Discipleship.

 

England’s Nazareth: Walsingham – Br. Louis Bethea at The Imaginative Conservative.