Marriage is a matter of calling, but community, the fellowship of souls is a matter of life and death. God built us all for community and some of us for marriage. And so, marriage is a subset of community, not the idol it has become in many Christian circles.
Author: Jason
Jason is, well, in the most accessible terms: A disciple, a husband, a father, a pastor, an actor, a director, a gamer, a sometimes writer, and a collector of stories. He has been married to an obviously younger woman for 30 years with whom he is raising 4 brilliant children. He pastors a eccentric little church in Lockhart, TX, He is the Ombudsman for the Gaslight-Baker Theater Board of Directors. He is the Theater Director for The Unity Performing Arts Project in Lockhart. He is ultimately, a person not unlike yourself: sometimes wise, more often foolish, full of whimsy and contradiction and above all else, Love.
Marriage, An Introduction
I am surrounded by divorce. It’s in my water. It’s in my food. It’s in the keys of my computer. It’s in my closet on my clothes because it won’t wash out in the laundry. It smells like tears and broken bones and sulfur. It tastes like sorrow and blood.
Pursuit: Lessons From a Persistent Breaking
God pursues us every day with a thousand words of love and encouragement. He pursues us with His people that He sent to love us. He pursues us with sunrises and sunsets and stars in the dark of night. He pursues us in the joy of laughter and the depth of art. He pursues us in mathematics and music and physics and biology, through all of our stories in books and movies and comics and songs.
Seasons
We love our Springs and Summers but don’t love the dying of Autumn and the death of Winter, yet we all face them in repeated circles of death and regeneration. The trick is to remain centered, at peace, within all of the changes; and to keep moving forward, alive, productive within those movements.
One Thing
Our level of character and fulfillment is directly related to the quality of the things we commit ourselves to.
Something Strange
You know what? You are the only one who knows what hurts your heart. You are the only one who can recognize the truth of what you are facing. And guess what? God cares.
Road Songs, Perspective pt. 3
Our joy dissolves into a puddle of tears at our feet. That stupid cartoon thundercloud hovers above our head. We snap at everyone or cry at the smallest emotional stimulus. And some stupid preacher tells us that it’s a matter of perspective. Don’t you just want to shoot that guy? But wait, he is just the messenger, and that message is a truth that will see you through.
Manifold Witness, Perspective pt. 2
God is always moving on, mixing new colors, writing new songs. The world will never understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ until His followers learn to live as we were created to live: In joy and laughter and sorrow and tears. We must dance our lives to the ever-changing music of God’s will.
Perspective, Part 1
I hate it when I can’t see straight. The cause of my vision loss doesn’t matter so much. I just get really irritated when my perception of… Read more “Perspective, Part 1”
to whom it may concern
He cries for you when you constantly cut yourself with old knives of broken memories. He hurts for you when you go back to your drug of choice again and again seeking solace. He is dying to see you free.
Hums, Hymns, Doodles and Daydreams 