This Thanksgiving, let us give thanks, as St. Paul states, “in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”Read More

I had the honor and privilege of speaking at Johnson University’s chapel service on October 11. Continuing their series titled “Because of Your Participation in the Gospel,” I addressed how we can intensify our participation in the Gospel by partaking of the Eucharistic body of Christ in order to become the ecclesial body of Christ,...Read More

A legacy gift is often the single most significant act of generosity toward God that most of us will ever perform. Let your hands be your executor instead of the government!Read More

Here is the Presidential Address from the June 2018 on-campus intensive session. This talk addresses a way of understanding beauty that can transform the way we approach worship and worship renewal.Read More

Do you know that God always has a mission for us, even in our lowest, emptiest times? In fact, it is an issue of spiritual metaphysics.Read More

Second century Church Father St. Irenaeus of Lyons famously wrote, “The Glory of God is a human being fully alive.” God has called us to be participants in His divine nature, bringing His reconciling life to the world through worship. So, why do we often find ourselves “running on empty,” lacking in inspiration and motivation?...Read More

Exciting updates from our June session, including news about ATS, an honorary degree conferral, and more!Read More

The celebration of Easter gives us Christians a glimpse into the reality of a restored and reconciled creation. Our missional privilege is to participate with heaven in self-sacrificially ushering in the present and future reality of God’s great gathering Kingdom in a soon-to-be transfigured earth.Read More

The role of beauty in worship is the communication and application of the truth and goodness of God that fires our hearts and souls with an intense love of God, and therefore an intense love of all mankind.Read More

In the encounter of the truly objectively Beautiful One, we are arrested, claimed, and sent.Read More

We need to ask ourselves: do our liturgies, preaching, sacred arts, sacred buildings, scripture interpretation and presentation, and even our lifestyles of virtue, lift our spirits out of the ordinary and toward God, or do they let us remain in the comfort of the increasingly hostile secular world around us?Read More

All of us are called to a beautiful existence, being priests of, and evangelists to, the created order through Jesus Christ our Lord. A life of beauty is alluring and winsome to our world that is so devoid of such beauty, and living lives of beauty, goodness and truth is truly the hope for our...Read More

St. John of the Cross wrote, "In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on earthly possession and human success, but rather on…"Read More

All to Jesus, I surrender; all to him I freely give; I will ever love and trust him, in his presence daily live I surrender all, I surrender all, All to Thee, my blessed savior, I surrender all. The well-known and beloved hymn above was written by Judson W. Van DeVenter in the late 19th...Read More

Vision and rapture, form and light work simultaneously to bring us to God. That's the beauty of God in Christ! In being caught up, we see with the eyes of our mind, and in seeing we are caught up to the invisible God.Read More