The Essays

One continuing argument, best read in order

1. Essay I

   Where Chaos Meets Holy Ground

   Prayer, Peacemaking (Not Peacekeeping), and the Christian Lawyer

2. Essay II

   The Weapons of Peace

   How the Christian Lawyer Practices on Holy Ground

3. Essay III

   They Have Not Spoken Rightly of Me

   The Theology of Job’s Friends and the Christian Professional Class

4. Essay IV

   Breaking the Jar

   How God Takes the World’s Smell Off Us

   Continued in Part 2 — On Pentecost and the Breaking of the Jar: waiting on God is the most active work there is.

5. Essay V

   Tearing Down the High Places

   The high place you keep is the one that disqualifies (and ultimately consumes) you.

6. Essay VI

   Bind the Strongman

   The house you swept will be filled, or it will be retaken.

7. Essay VII

   Stand in the Gap – Part 1: Preparation, Call, and Office

   The Vacancy, the Office, and the Priestly Lawyer

   The capstone: the lawyer as priest. Part 2 — whose office this is, the Advocate who holds it, the working day, and the blessing — follows.

Before the Series

A testimony from twenty-three years before the first essay

1. Testimony

   What Angels Would Not

   Testimony from the living room of a younger me.

Beside the Series

Prayers and practical helps for before and after the room

1. Applied

   Practice Pointers for the Christian Lawyer

   How We Walk Out the Working Day on Holy Ground

2. Prayer

   A Prayer for the Christian Lawyer on Holy Ground

   Peacemaker Prayer