Jesus Creed
If I were to start over, what would I be sure to practice? Self-care Self-care is not only good stewardship of the self but also a gift to the church. When a Christian minister practices self-care, the congregation is blessed! |inline Read more
If I were to start over, what would I be sure to practice? Self-care Self-care is not only good stewardship of the self but also a gift to the church. When a Christian minister practices self-care, the congregation is blessed! |inline Read more
Grant, O Lord, that the course of this world may be peaceably governed by your providence; and that your Church may joyfully serve you in confidence and serenity; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
Every morning — well, when we weren’t in a car driving off to speak somewhere — Kris and I walked. We called this “Sarengetti.” Nearly every day we watched a bundle of guinea fowl getting all worried our invasion of their space…. |inline Read more
On our trip I bought some coffees, including a few packs of Douwe Egberts in the Amsterdam airport. I’ve seen Douwe Egberts in a few places, had a cup or two, but a few lattes of this stuff brewed in our Rancilio Silvia convinced me this is a fine, very fine, coffee. Creamy, smooth, hints of chocolate — and a lingering, lasting good taste. Anybody got the scoop on this coffee? (I see Amazon sells Douwe Egbert.) I’ll be mentioning... Read more
Chicago Spring means baby robins: |inline Read more
If there was one book I wish I could have given to every pastor I met in South Africa [and I’ve sent one to Attie], Klyne Snodgrass’ new book, Stories with Intent, is the one. Why? Because we need more preaching on the parables, and because this book delivers the goods on the parables — nothing fancy, nothing adventurous, nothing controversial — just solid, commonsensical study of the parables of Jesus in his world. And, yes, if I were a... Read more
“If I could begin all over again” is a hard sentence for me to apply to myself for I still think of myself as just beginning. I feel like I am learning things today I should have known twenty years ago. So, with that caveat, if I had to start all over again, I would focus more on intentional discipleship of leaders in my church community. |inline Read more
Here is a fantastic question asked of us about the issue of wrath … How do you respond to this mom? |inline Read more
One of the books I was recommended to read about South Africa was Rian Malan’s well-known and widely-read My Traitor’s Heart. If Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country is a literary classic about the problems behind apartheid, and if J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace depicts the hopelessness and passivity of some in South Africa today, Rian Malan’s book puts both of these sketches into graphic realities. |inline Read more
This series and this post are by RJS; and we are glad Scot is back – because the challenges confronting us in this chapter are up his alley not mine. Come on, many ask us today, you can’t really take the Bible literally—Can you? This is the important question addressed in Chapter 7 of Tim Keller’s book The Reason for Godalthough this is not really the question answered in the chapter. A better formulation and a more important question is:... Read more
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