One thing that has been keeping me busy recently is a video project for my church, Sanctuary CRC. We are starting a new sermon series on the role of Kingdom justice in our lives and what that means for us and the church.

I helped produce a video to introduce this series to the congregation. Even though it is only just over two minutes long, this is the longest video project I have shot and edited on my own.

Thought I would share it here to prove I’m not dead or in hiding. =) Hope you enjoy it!

Filed under: life by Jonathan on Sunday, 8 January 2012
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In one sense we are always traveling,
and traveling as if we did not know where we were going.
In another sense we have already arrived.
We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life,
and that is why we are traveling and in darkness.
But we already possess Him by grace,
and therefore in that sense,
we have arrived and are dwelling in the light.
But oh! How far have I to go to find You
in Whom I have already arrived!

By: Thomas Merton

Filed under: life by Jonathan on Friday, 16 December 2011
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Michael Gungor Band – Song For My Family

Filed under: life by Jonathan on Thursday, 13 October 2011
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I have never been one for apologizing about not posting here on my blog. I typically wait until I have something meaningful to say–at least in my mind–before writing. I have been working through a lot of things in my head the last couple months but I don’t know that any of them are ready for public consumption yet, so I have been woefully slow to publish anything here. Rest assured though I have been doing plenty of writing.

If you’d like to see some of what I’ve been up to, you can check out this series of posts I wrote for the Jolkona Foundation here in Seattle about how their work relates to the UN Millennium Development Goals.

I have also been participating the last few weeks in a writing group based around Julia Cameron’s book The Artists Way. I have been writing three pages a day as part of a “morning pages” exercise for that group. If you’d like to know more about The Artists Way, here’s a link to the book on Amazon.

So all of this is to simply say that I am writing, I hope to return to posting here soon, and hopefully I’ll return with some exciting and inspiring new work and ideas. =]

Filed under: Art, blogging, life by Jonathan on Sunday, 9 October 2011
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Ten years ago, 19 men crashed two passenger jets into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and a third into the Pentagon. A fourth jet, destination unknown, crashed in the fields of Pennsylvania. A painful gash was cut into our hearts that day.

For ten years we have sought to right the wrongs of that day. Though we have struggled to forge a more peaceful world, we confess that our tools are crude and violent. War begets war, and death begets death.

Lord, we suffer under the weight of a broken world. Unable to strip away the sin and injustice of this life. Even as we know you are Sovereign, so often we feel confused and lost. We are like Job, unable to comprehend the scope of your power and ways. You are a truly awesome God.

It is you who sits above the circle of the Earth,
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
Who brings princes to naught,
And makes the rulers of the earth as nothing
The lord is the everlasting God
The Creator of the ends of the earth.

But our understanding is not requisite for hope.

For I am not my own,
but belong fully,
in mind and soul,
in body and spirit,
to my loving Savior Jesus Christ.

It is through this divine possession we can take hope in the midst of suffering.

That neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future,
nor any powers,
neither height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Amen.

Filed under: Church, justice by Jonathan on Sunday, 11 September 2011
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