resurrection
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A Very Empty Tomb
Jesus is alive. Too many saw Him, met with and touched Him after His tomb was found vacated to deny something cataclysmic occurred. Too many of them died savagely with that testimony on their lips. Still, for many, the resurrection remains beyond belief—a thought that lurks beyond any ability to cope. Even so, people strive…
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Coping with the End of Your World
“How can you cope with the end of the world and the beginning of another one? How can you put an earthquake into a test-tube or the sea into a bottle? How can you live with the terrifying thought that the hurricane has become human, that fire has become flesh; that Life itself came to…
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Behold.
“Here from this stable, here, from this Nazareth, this stony beach, this Jerusalem, this market place, this garden, this Praetorium, this Cross, this mountain, I announce it to you. I announce to you what is guessed at in all the phenomena of your world. You see the corn of wheat shrivel and break open and…
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Miracle
July 4, 2017—Today I was in a miracle. Two years ago we were packing up our annual July 4th picnic/baptism at the American River (Coloma, CA) when were heard sirens converging at the river near our baptism site. I came to the picnic as a pastor and it appeared I was about to shift into…
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The Eucatastrophe of History (Merry Christmas)
Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien declared, “The Incarnation of God is an infinitely greater thing than anything I would dare to write…” (italics in the original). But later on he tried. Here is what he wrote… “The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy stories.…
Jay McCarl 