Thanks, Jared Wilson (Also, Read His New Book).

It's not always easy being a seminarian, or a Christian for that matter. Jared Wilson helps. His new book is no different. You should pick up a copy.

Sonnets For Advent: Already Not Yet

THIS IS PART 4 OF A 4 PART SERIES. THIS POEM ORIGINALLY APPEARED AS PART OF AN ADVENT SERIES ON THE EMMAUS CHURCH BLOG. YOU CAN FIND IT HERE. THE FEATURED IMAGE IS AN ORIGINAL BY KATIE STOUT. Christmas is here! Our last advent sonnet, by my wife Allie, reflects on the joy of Christ's first …

Sonnets for Advent: Humility

THIS POEM ORIGINALLY APPEARED AS PART OF AN ADVENT SERIES ON THE EMMAUS CHURCH BLOG. YOU CAN FIND IT HERE. THE FEATURED IMAGE IS AN ORIGINAL BY BRADY QUARLES AND IS USED BY PERMISSION. The glory of incarnation is hard to capture in 14 lines. I wanted at first to contrast the tenderness of new life …

Sonnets for Advent: Glory

Christmas is about glory.

Sonnets for Advent: Desperation

This poem originally appeared, along with visual art and a prose piece, as part of an advent series on the Emmaus Church blog. The featured image is an original by Brady Quarles and is used by permission. You can find it here. Advent is a time of unique emotions. Most look to it as a …

A Poem For the Fed Up

I'm tired of seeing my brothers swallowed up by pornography.

Will You Reck His Rod?: Trinitarian Aesthetics in Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur”

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

Poetry Spotlight: “The Altar” by George Herbert

In all your sacrifice for the things of God, do not forget the sacrifice of Christ, without which your working would be useless and empty.

Gospel At All Costs

No treasure or comfort of the world is worth losing the gospel.

Christian, Read Good Books

Learn to see Christ in literature, and you will learn to love to read not simply as an act of leisure but as an act of sanctifying, God- glorifying worship