My colleague Harry Plantinga, director of the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, recently posted a blog meditating on the Syrian mystic Dionysius’s ideas of yearning for God. Harry connects the experience of yearning with the attractiveness of God’s beauty. He says: Paul’s description of the spiritual life is not the slightest bit dispassionate in the modern […]
Tag: Longing
My Favorite Fairy Tale
Some 30-plus years ago, I preached a sermon on Colossians 1:13-14: “He [the Father] has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” In thinking about what it meant to be rescued and transferred from one Kingdom […]