The Restless Child
“Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” —Matthew 6:10 Activism without surrender is noise without harmony. Only in kneeling to God’s will do…
Eyes Unclouded
“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” — Mark 8:36 To see clearly is to reject the world’s empty treasures and…
What Do You Expect to Find in The Chalice?
When we cannot recognize Christ in the worn face of the beggar at the church door, we will search for Him in the chalice and find only wine. —D. +++…
The Plowman’s Feast
The quiet, unseen labor of bearing Christ’s presence—like a plowman’s work—teaches us that through broken bread, love is made full and mercy becomes the hands with which we till the…
The Wealth of Empty Hands
The church thrives when spiritual poverty humbles us to receive grace and compels us to open our hands in hospitality, but without these, it stumbles as a house unfit for…
Does Anyone See The Beggar in The Pulpit
Does Anyone See The Beggar in The Pulpit by Donavon L Riley The preacher, as beggar, is a vessel of the true beggar-king, Jesus Christ, whose poverty and humility transform…
No Other Call Worth Heeding
In this turning, where cold hands thaw and broken bodies rise, There is a fire kindled not by our own striving, But from the heart of Love, who walked among…
Unguarded and Full of Trust
Unguarded and Full of Trust by Donavon L Riley The story of Cain and Abel—two brothers, each with his hands full of what he thought was worthy to bring before…
Not By Our Own Strength
Not By Our Own Strength by Donavon L Riley It’s in our faltering, our stumbling into sin or grief, that God begins His strange work in us. He lets failure…
The Thin Illusion of Strength
The Thin Illusion of Strength by Donavon L Riley God, with His quiet and relentless mercy, works to yank back the veil over our eyes, to show us the truth…