I must follow, if I can

Pursuing it with eager feet / Until it joins some larger way

  • Wrestling with God

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on December 24, 2004

    I’m studying a lot about the biblical Jacob and the practice of wrestling with God. But lately there’s a big question I’m struggling with, and that is knowing when to go with the flow and trust that God in charge, and when to intervene because it depends on you. [Read More]

  • No Angel…

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on December 22, 2004

    Okay, so he wasn’t an angel. And it’s a good thing, too, because this is part of what he wrote: “The life we live is not our own[,] for who’s to say that we’ll live to see tomorrow?” While it may be theologically correct, there’s something a little foreboding about... [Read More]

  • "The Test of Loyalty"

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on December 20, 2004

    Someone has suggested that I should expect someone to look through my stuff if I set it down in a bookstore. I disagree. If it were for sale, my Bible would be in a little Bible box like all the others. My notebook wouldn’t be the only notebook in the... [Read More]

  • HELLO, WERE YOU BORN IN A BARN?!?

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on December 18, 2004

    Tonight after the service I went into the church bookstore to look something up. Pastor Sam was talking about Colossians 1, where Paul says he’s trying to “fill up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ.” I remembered from John Piper’s Desiring God that there’s a parallel verse in... [Read More]

  • So much for "The Glory of Christmas"…

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on December 17, 2004

    The conductor of the Crystal Cathedral’s unionized house orchestra killed himself at the church after a 9-hour standoff. (In the interest of full disclosure I have to mention that my grandparents go to the Crystal Cathedral, a fact which has embarrassed me for a long time.) The standoff began less... [Read More]

  • Winter Intercession

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on December 15, 2004

    I’ve been overhearing a lot of Chico State students talking about intercession lately. Actually, I’m kidding. They’re really talking about winter intersession (before regular classes resume at the end of January). But wouldn’t it be cool if it were the other kind of intercession that they were talking about–intercessory prayer?... [Read More]

  • Some still recognize a need for irrelevance…

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on December 11, 2004

    Christians are so uncool. At least Rolling Stone thinks so. They were going to run a story about down & dirty street ministry on the Spanish island of Ibiza, but RS pulled the story, because apparently they’re mad at Christians for getting Bush re-elected. In their response, the brothers and... [Read More]

  • On Sunbathing

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on December 9, 2004

    I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. Correct me, O LORD, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing. (Jer 10:23-24, ESV) [Read More]