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Second of 7 Prayers for Marriage: We Fight for the Common Good

Andrew Comiskey

Feb 24, 2013
2 min

Second of 7 Prayers for Marriage: We Fight for the Common Good

‘You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.’ – (IS 58: 11b) One sees this clearly in a good marriage. A man and woman, united in body and spirit, regenerate life in the form of children. Yet procreation is only the beginning. The wholeness of two complementary beings, committed for life, provides a stabilizing influence for all who intersect with them. I recall the generous love that both Annette’s parents and my own released to the neighb

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 20, 2013
2 min

Lent Devotion 2: Good Suffering

‘The greatest figures of prophecy and sanctity step forth out of the darkest night.’ – St. Edith Stein Suffering alone does not give us life or make us good. Jesus does. He simply uses suffering to reduce us to Himself. Serious trouble invites us into the desert to prepare for the resurrection He has in store for us. Of all the kinds of suffering that exist, the best kind involves suffering for being a Christian. The Church at Smyrna knew that suffering well. (Rev.2: 8-11) T

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First of 7 Prayers for Marriage: Why We Fight

Andrew Comiskey

Feb 17, 2013
2 min

First of 7 Prayers for Marriage: Why We Fight

Maybe I fought because I believe that marriage belongs to God. He ordained it as the relationship that civilizes our sexuality, makes it truly creative and reminds us to be responsible for the kids we create from it. Marriage matters to God because every one of His human creations is impacted by it. And maybe I fought for marriage because I was sick and tired of the will of the people being overturned by the courts in my home-state of CA. Prop. 8 arose in response to one such

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Fighting for Our Best 2 – Battle for the Bride

Andrew Comiskey

Feb 10, 2013
3 min

Fighting for Our Best 2 – Battle for the Bride

‘For Zion’s sake, I shall not be silent, for Jerusalem’s sake, I will not remain quiet, until her righteousness shines forth like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.’ (IS. 62: 1) Such intimacy prepares us for the Cross. As Lent becomes Holy Week 2013, might we wait longer with Him on Good Friday, and so rejoice more fully with Him on Easter Sunday? Lent is a time of reduction. We pare down the extras in our life; we turn down the noise of a thousand voices in order

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Courage and Contending Part 5: What We Need

Andrew Comiskey

Jan 28, 2013
3 min

Courage and Contending Part 5: What We Need

‘I urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints’…for ‘godless ones have changed the grace of God into a license for immorality.’ (Jude 3, 4) Any challenge to the ‘gay self’ is seen as dangerous. Now educators, therapists, and social workers, even pastors, go to great lengths to confirm that ‘self’ by supporting alternative communities that support early expressions of ‘gender-bending.’ I recently read of a camp in upstate New York that hosts

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Andrew Comiskey

Jan 21, 2013
2 min

Courage and Contending – Part 4

‘I felt that I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith,’ in light of ‘those who change the grace of God into a license for immorality.’ (Jude 3, 4) Jodie Foster and David Geffen, two giants of the entertainment industry, recently revealed the deeper ache at the core of their homosexuality. Both have blazed a trail for ‘coming out’; both reveal the disintegration that no amount of gay liberties can cure. Why then is the church of Jesus Christ so intent on blessing t

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Andrew Comiskey

Jan 7, 2013
2 min

Courage and Contending-Part 2

‘We must help all believers acquire a more vigorous, conscious adherence to the Gospel.’ Pope Benedict ‘I urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.’ (Jude 3b) More than any other issue, including abortion, homosexuality will divide the Church of Jesus Christ. The falling away of many from a Cross-centered Gospel is already evident in the way some conservative churches address homosexuality. A lay leader recently shut down a friend of min

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Andrew Comiskey

Jan 1, 2013
3 min

Courage and Contending, Part 1

‘I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once and for all entrusted to the saints. For certain men…have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men who change the grace of God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.’ (Jude vs. 3b, 4) The NY Times celebrated 12/12/2012 with a front page photo of two brides (one indistinguishable from a man) making out on the subway. The caption celebrating their ‘gay marria

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 12, 2012
2 min

Waking Up

You could cite Obama’s slide as America’s; he started 4 years ago resolute in his ‘Christian’ commitment to marriage then unraveled. He became the first US president to champion ‘gay marriage’ last May. Did he lead America into ‘gay marriage’ or just reflect the superficial faith of many? Chicken or egg: discuss. Last Tuesday, the Church laid an egg; she chickened out, big time. How else do you explain the stats that most avowed Roman Catholics in the USA now support ‘gay mar

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 9, 2012
2 min

Water Rising

Deadened like you by a disastrous election (marriage trounced in four states, abortion’s champion re-elected—more on this later), I recalled how most of the DSM staff spent Election Day and I take heart. We spent 12 hours in prayer in the Minneapolis House of Prayer, located in a church smack dab in the middle of the huge state university there. The prayer house is run by masterful musician Nate Oyloe who also runs Outpost, a sister ministry to Desert Stream which specializes

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Andrew Comiskey

Sep 10, 2012
2 min

Ache of Humanity

Spiritual and sexual longing are similar in several ways: we experience both as an ache in a way that pervades the whole of our humanity. We cannot confine sexual longing to our genitals anymore than we can limit the ache for God to our ‘souls.’ Spirituality and sexuality motivate us into relationships, the former with God, the latter our fellows. These unions can result in new life, regeneration, and blessed creativity. Or compulsive drives that persuade us to shuck the good

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Andrew Comiskey

Sep 3, 2012
3 min

Getting Low for the Lost

8am: a man to whom I had been sharing Christ stopped our conversation short by introducing me to his new male lover then politely refused any more ‘God-talk.’ Noon: some dear friends called me to in tears to tell us that their son had just ‘come out’ and that the conservative Christian college he attended was supporting his new ‘gay self’. 4pm: a Christian leader called me to ask for help for a devout father of 4 children whose wife had just abandoned the family for a female

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Andrew Comiskey

Jul 23, 2012
2 min

Heaven on Earth

Amid my demonic accusations, co-host Karen Davis said quietly: ‘God does amazing things through prayer…’ Sure enough, as we gathered to pray before the conference, regional leader Deb Ivancovich anointed each of us and proclaimed that God would do mighty things, far beyond our understanding. The cloud around me dissipated and could see clearly once more. I gazed around the room at the prayer/teaching team composed of 13 men and women from around the area, all Living Waters le

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Andrew Comiskey

Jun 28, 2012
2 min

Justice for Whom

New evidence now exists to show a host of challenges to kids of gay parents. Professor Mark Regenerus found that, when compared to adults raised in married, mother/father families, adults raised by lesbian parents had negative outcomes in 24 out of 40 categories, while adults raised by gay fathers had negative outcomes in 19 categories. (See http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/10/study-suggests-risks-from-same-sex-parenting/) More studies are in the works to debunk t

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Andrew Comiskey

May 31, 2012
2 min

Pentecost: Power to Live the Truth

Woodcut, published ca. 1880. I just read in the New York Times that Dr. Robert Spitzer, the man who documented the transformation of 200 former homosexuals like me, now claims (for no apparent reason) that we must have been lying. Who knew? Not my wife and kids… Bowing to the irrational drive of gay activists who insist that no homosexual can change (in spite of pretty good evidence to the contrary), Spitzer capitulated. Gratefully, God helps those who aspire to live the trut

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Ascending Fear: Jesus’ Absence and Our Authority

Andrew Comiskey

May 24, 2012
3 min

Ascending Fear: Jesus’ Absence and Our Authority

Ascension of Christ. Woodcut after a drawing by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German painter, 1794 - 1872), published in 1877. ‘Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you. But if I go, I will send Him to you.’ (Jn 16:6) Jesus had to leave us in order to liberate us. He had to depart in order to give us power. But for the disciples, Jesus’ ascension back to the Father may have felt more like abandonment than the assurance of authority. Think about it. Jesus’ followe

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Andrew Comiskey

Apr 25, 2012
2 min

Pray More

If we want to be more like Jesus, we must be with Him more. And do less of everything else. Our roots must sink and stay deep in the Source if we want to bear fruit that remains. I do badly when first thoughts of the day revolve around unsolved problems. I start striving, and my words and actions become cutting. I know right away that I am not in Christ; I am worldly, and thus unable reveal Him to the world. I used to wake up each morning and see if the little red light was f

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Intimate Authority: Holy Week Meditations, 3

Andrew Comiskey

Apr 4, 2012
4 min

Intimate Authority: Holy Week Meditations, 3

— Intimate Authority: Holy Week Meditations, 3 Intimacy with Jesus made an ex-prostitute the bearer of the most important event in human history. God entrusted a woman, not one of the 12, with Christ’s resurrection. That’s why the Roman Catholic Church names Mary Magdalene the ‘Apostle of Apostles.’ Mary’s surrender to Christ was marked by weeping and lingering, two earmarks of loving another with all one’s heart. Such sustained intimacy gave Mary authority. Such reliance on

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Merciful Discipline 6: Humbled, We Shine

Andrew Comiskey

Apr 3, 2012
5 min

Merciful Discipline 6: Humbled, We Shine

Merciful Discipline 6: Humbled, We Shine ‘When You disciplined us, we could barely whisper a prayer.’ (IS 26:16) ‘Christ’s abiding presence in the midst of our suffering is gradually transforming our darkness into light.’ Pope Benedict The sexual abuse crisis in the Church brings us to our knees. We do not kneel politely but painfully, a sprawl rather than a pose. On behalf of those felled by the weight of a priest’s perversion, we too stumble and fall. Behold the scandal we

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Intimate Authority: Holy Week Meditations, 2

Andrew Comiskey

Apr 3, 2012
3 min

Intimate Authority: Holy Week Meditations, 2

— Intimate Authority: Holy Week Meditation, 2 Luke 7: 36-50 introduces us to Mary Magdalene. Mercy drew her out of fear and shame, and compelled her to offer herself to Him. Jesus embodied that Mercy for a prostitute. Imagine that: a kind, strong, handsome man who only wanted her good, nothing from her but her dignity. And a holy man who did not fear her and the entanglement of desires she lay at His feet. She wept and lingered there. His Mercy was magnetic, a good match for

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