A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. – John 13:34-35 In his book The Mark of the Christian, Francis…

The following is entitled The Sideways Image: Loving One Another, from Popologetics: Popular Culture in Christian Perspective by Ted Turnau: Let us explore how community images God. Just as the triune God is a community, so we are made for community. We are quite literally made for each other. “So God created man in his…

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. – Psalm 51:1-3 The Psalter gives us ample instruction in how…

For years I’ve read the Psalter daily; there is no other book I know and love so well as this one…Knowing them in this way belongs to the greatest enrichments of my life. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer on May 15, 1943, writing to his parents from his Nazi prison cell at Tegel I recently finished a…