Jesus Creed
We, and this cardinal, are ready for Spring: |inline Read more
We, and this cardinal, are ready for Spring: |inline Read more
You may remember our post about a father and a son and some doubt. Good things are happening so if you could read this and then pray for them. |inline Read more
We look today at the parable of the growing seed from Mark 4:26-29. We are looking at the parable by reading through Klyne Snodgrass, Stories with Intent, and here is the text: |inline Read more
Yesterday I was at Willow’s youth leadership conference called Shift. A full day but lots of fun. I’m not a youth minister, obviously — nor was I a very good one when I gave it a whirl, but if I were one today these kinds of conferences would be a highlight. |inline Read more
In the coming month we will turn to two new books, one by Darrell Cosden called The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work. I met Darrell on a flight, got his book, and think this book is a nice change of topics and a good book for us. And, alongside that one, we’ll look at John Stackhouse, Making the Best of It. Stackhouse argues for Christian realism vs. Constantinianism and Anabaptism. Read more
I don’t think many think of this, so let me make it clear right away: if love of God and love others is the foundation and final expression of what we are designed to be, if Pentecost empowers us to be this, then I want to suggest that Sermon on the Mount is an exposition of what it looks like to love God and to love others. (So, the 4th part of 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed.) |inline Read more
Our mortgage company sent us a report that for some reason skipped a couple of months. To keep our records complete (and straight), I called the company to request a complete activity report. (The term they use is “activity.”) Here’s what happened (and did not happen): |inline Read more
Apologetics is changing in the 21st Century, changing from arguments that rationally prove the truth of Christianity to a gospel that, as Mel Lawrenz calls it, summons humans because of the “divine allure.” In his book, I Want to Believe, what Mel — senior pastor at Elmbrook Church outside of Milwaukee — does is focus on one theme: the human yearning to believe that is prompted by the reality that God wants us. |inline Read more
The Pentecost community is one that loves God and loves others — and it loves the self properly and it loves the real people of God — and this love of God that loves the self and others reaches out to the needy. Jesus’ brother, younger and one who watched Jesus do the Messianic vocation, made this quite clear in James 1 when he said that a true believer, or one properly religious, looked after widows and orphans. |inline Read more
I wish I could tell you that I have been a long-time reader of Thomas Howard. I can’t. Discovering his absolutely splendid The Night is Far Spent filled my Easter weekend and occasional moments with joy, insight, ruminations, and pleasure in his delightful prose. |inline Read more
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