I haven’t talked about this coffee maker in a long time, so it’s time to inform my readers of a coffee maker. AeroPress Coffee and Espresso Maker , hands down, the best coffee maker for the workplace — not quite as good as espresso, better than French press, and much better than any kind of drip machine. It’s cheap, it’s easy to clean, and it makes a nice coffee. Prior to class one of my students comes by and I... Read more
Peter was called to explain himself, his behaviors, and what had happened when the Jerusalem church heard that Gentiles were doing these most Jewish of things — believing in Jesus as Messiah, mixing with the messianic movement, accepting the word of God, and receiving the Holy Spirit as the end-time gift of God to renew his covenant with Israel. So, Peter summarizes his previous experience: 11:1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too... Read more
One of my students told me he had read Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality four or five times (I can’t remember the number now). I had not read it and he rolled his eyes when I said so. I didn’t tell him that I had not even heard of it, but I did decide it was time to read a book my college students were reading. So I read it. Not long after that, the... Read more
Many of us prepare ourselves for the Great Interior — a life of intimate communion with God. But, after all the preparation, how many of us enter into that Interior? I do wonder if the Interior is where we are known truly, and I wonder if that knowledge gives us fear. Is there enough silence in your life to enter into the Great Interior with God? Do you need to turn off the iPod, the music, the radio, the TV... Read more
A number of inviting reads have crossed my desk of late, and I want to mention a few we will be discussing on this blog… Greg Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Religion: Losing Your Religion for the Beauty of a Revolution . Josh Graves, The Feast . Harvey Cox, The Future of Faith . Margaret Feinberg, Scouting the Divine: My Search for God in Wine, Wool, and Wild Honey. Read more
C.S. Lewis, in “Footnote to All Prayers” (Poems ), made this brilliant observation: Take not, O Lord, our literal sense. Lord, in thy great Unbroken speech our limping metaphor translate. Read more
Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Read more
Navy Pier Chicago We need a lawyer: FTC is now suggesting (?requiring) bloggers to disclose payments for endorsements. OK, many of the books I blog about are sent to me as a “Review Copy.” Is this new ruling about books or bigger issues? You can get the music version of the Jesus Creed (by Seven Mile Walk) as an MP3 and on iTunes (not sure how to do a link to iTunes). O, Roger! So very true. Here it is!... Read more
I learn so much from pastors, and I’ll be blogging about one such pastor soon, and I’ve learned that I learn so much because we learn from one another. Pastors sometimes write me about cracking the code of a passage so they can preach it well, and I write to them about wisdom for preaching. Now from a professor to a pastor. Pastors I think could help their preaching and their prayers if they read books about writing. Besides reading... Read more
We pride ourselves on civility at this blog, but I had to remove a comment or two because they went over the top. Please treat the President and others with civility. Thanks. By the way, I weighed in in the comments on how I see this award. President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What are your thoughts? Why? The committee: “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” “Only very rarely has a person... Read more
Jesus Creed
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In