Paraclete was kind enough to give away 100 advance copies of 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed. They can’t give away any more but they are now making available a 10 day offer of buying 40 Days at $9.99 plus s + h. All you need to do is click here and press the add to cart button to purchase them at this special price. P.S. For those of of you who ordered the book today at a higher price,... Read more
Paraclete was kind enough to give away 100 advance copies of 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed. They can’t give away any more but they are now making available a 10 day offer of buying 40 Days at $9.99 plus s + h. All you need to do is click here and press the add to cart button to purchase them at this special price. P.S. For those of of you who ordered the book today at a higher price,... Read more
Try this for a downloadable copy of the Jesus Creed itself. (HT Peggy Brown) Paraclete Press is willing to give away 100 advance copies of 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed. [This order is now over but you are welcome to order the book from either Paraclete or our sidebar. Sorry, but the advance copies went fast.] Kris and I decided together that 40 Days had to be dedicated to the Jesus Creed blog community and so we are thrilled... Read more
With the new Barna report finding that born again voters are not supporting Republicans as they once did, a book like Randy Balmer’s God in the White House becomes all the more pertinent. On top of this observation I also want to say that an element of this reconfiguration of the political scene is the emerging movement. Things are changing friends. Those who predict are usually wrong; I’ll avoid predicting. But things are changing. |inline Read more
We have now finished the references to kingdom in Mark (and parallels) and Q. Now we turn to references to kingdom found only in Matthew. We begin with Matthew 3:2: In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the Desert of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.” 3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the desert, Prepare the way for the Lord,... Read more
I am asking my blog’s readers to consider a challenge for Lent. No, it is not giving up anything. Instead, it helps move Lent into 40 days of living out the gospel: I am asking you to begin and end each day of Lent (beginning Wednesday) by reciting the Jesus Creed. And, whenever it comes to mind throughout the day, I am asking you to recite it again. In your evening recitation of the Jesus Creed, we are asking you... Read more
I am asking my blog’s readers to consider a challenge for Lent. No, it is not giving up anything. Instead, it helps move Lent into 40 days of living out the gospel: I am asking you to begin and end each day of Lent (beginning Wednesday) by reciting the Jesus Creed. And, whenever it comes to mind throughout the day, I am asking you to recite it again. In your evening recitation of the Jesus Creed, we are asking you... Read more
Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope keeps getting better and better for me. In chp 6 he sketches a view of the future that avoids the disastrous inability of evolution to deal with sin and the mistaken notion that we need to get out of this world to be what we were designed to be. What then does that future look like? |inline Read more
If you are considering pastoring, I’ve got a question I’d like you to think about and then read through the comments that our readers will be offering. Recently we posted a series on Andrew Purves, The Crucifixion of Ministry, but sitting on my “to read” stack of books are three more books about pastoring. I can’t go through each one but I do want to call your attention to them should you be interested. Both seminary students and pastors can... Read more
Here is a word of Jesus from Matthew 13: “33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough.” |inline Read more
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