Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Read more
Kris began the day on the back porch reading the newspaper. 25 or so minutes into her read she opened the back door to say, “I’ve found a movie for us tonight.” I asked, “What’s it called?” She said, “Invincible.” |inline Read more
Real church: check out this story from Don Johnson at Jibstay. |inline Read more
We have a desktop iMac and I write on a Powerbook G4. I use Entourage as my e-mail application, and the mail from North Park just shows up (like magic to me) at home in my Entourage account. But, today suddenly I started getting a -23012 error message, something with not making connection, and I can’t get the phone folks to figure it out. I called Apple, Microsoft, Comcast (our server?) — no closer to a resolution. My brain works... Read more
Tuesday morning, in a short conversation with a colleague, we had a moment where we agreed on something we had never spoken to each other about. We have both observed the rise of a neo-fundamentalism. What struck both of us was this: We’ve been there and can’t understand why anyone would want to return to Fundamentalism. |inline Read more
In chp 10 of Joseph Epstein’s book, Friendship: An Expose, Epstein asks this question: What are the friendships between males like? What do you think of the following quotations? |inline Read more
Paul’s heart is for “Israel” (not specifically named in Rom. 10:1-4 but implicit); his prayer is for their “salvation.” Beyond the Exile, if we follow the motion of Paul, there will be Covenant Renewal, and that will occur in Christ. |inline Read more
We have a new colleague in our BTS Dept at North Park: Joel Willitts. Having figured out this blogging world a bit, I thought it might be a good time to record some thoughts of what I wish a veteran teacher had told me when I was a young theologian. So, this is a bit of a letter to Joel at the outset of his new career. |inline Read more
Yesterday, sitting in the living room sipping on coffee and peeking out the picture window, I was waiting for the FedEx man to arrive at our home because the edited manuscript of The Real Mary was scheduled to arrive before 10:30am. I met him at the door. Now sit back and listen to the story of what it is like to encounter the “edits” on a manuscript. If you think writing is fun, you haven’t yet had a good editor.... Read more
Paul’s logic is patently clear: Israel did not obtain righteousness (as a status before God) while the non-covenant people, the Gentiles, did obtain righteousness. Paul clarifies why “Israel” did not get it and why the Gentiles did: |inline Read more
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