Kris and I, along with my colleague Boaz Johnson and his wife Sarita, went tonight to a theatre to see Narnia. By common consent, we fell in love with Lucy and Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, and of course Aslan was awesome. I don’t know what Linux is nor do I understand how those folks can make fake animals look so dad-gum real. Best scene for me? The cracking of the Stone Table. I liked that scene, too, when Aslan told... Read more
Lots of blogs in my blogs of the week. The very top of my blog list this week is Karen Spears Zacharias’ funny stories on her blog, Sit and Spit. Her experience with the friend who calls it “E-Rac” and the doctor thinking it was “wreck” — well, you read it. |inline Read more
Lots of blogs in my blogs of the week. The very top of my blog list this week is Karen Spears Zacharias’ funny stories on her blog, Sit and Spit. Her experience with the friend who calls it “E-Rac” and the doctor thinking it was “wreck” — well, you read it. |inline Read more
Time to vote. Who do you think was the most outstanding athlete/sportsperson of the year? This poll is for the male athletes, my next one will be for female. Too hard to mix them up. Read more
Christmas for Mary meant learning what to teach her kids (Luke 1:46-55). Those of you who have read my Jesus Creed will know that I think Mary had a hand in teaching Jesus a thing or two about kingdom mission. I hold it as a minimum that what Mary experience in the Magnificat and what Jesus did and taught are very similar. How so? |inline Read more
Why talk about this again? One simple reason: too many continue to use the terms inaccurately, so I thought I’d post a little blog on how to use these terms a little more accurately. I’ve tired of hearing us talk around one another and so I’m asking, especially for our critics, to listen long enough to consider the following items. Call them “Seven Habits of Successful Emerging Discussions.” |inline Read more
This must be the best dancer ever, or there is some funky stuff going on with a video camera, but as my son reminds me, watch the tape long enough to see the guy in orange. Read more
There has been a flurry of blogging about (mostly) mega-churches that have opted not to have a Sunday service in light of their attention to Christmas Eve services. Most of the blogging has been negative, some of it sharply so. Iâm thinking here of Ben Witheringtonâs blog â and Ben is a friend and a fellow NT professor. He has been forthrightly against the mega-church decisions, and he has drawn a number of comments along the same line. Steve McCoyâs... Read more
For Mary, Christmas end the beginning of the end for systemic violence (1:51-55). A student told me the other day that Christians don’t believe James 1:26-27 (pure religion is taking care of widows and orphans). In my mind, I went to Mary who was the mother of James and she was a widow, and his older brother, Jesus, was big on caring for widows. James must have thought of her when he wrote those words. |inline Read more
This post will summarize Eugene Peterson’s Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, chp. 1 pp. 85-108. This is a short section, but it is better than biting off too big of a chunk that extends to nearly 50 pages and ends with great reflections on Sabbath and Wonder (next week). Whether you’ve read the book or not, we welcome your interactions. This section deals with the second grounding text when it comes to Christ playing in Creation. The first one... Read more
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