Kris and I were in Vancouver for seven days where I was teaching at Regent College in the mornings, and we spent the afternoons visiting a number of places — what a beautiful city! — but more about Regent and Vancouver on another day. All this to say, not much when it comes to Meanderings… sorry. But here’s four choice items. Pamela Wood: “On Maryland’s Eastern Shore, a previously untold story of free African Americans is being told through newly... Read more
Justin Welby’s own conversion comment sounds a bit like C.S. Lewis’ famous comment: But it did happen to him, in New Court, Trinity College, during the evening of October 12, 1975. At Eton, he had “vaguely assumed there was a God. But I didn’t believe. I wasn’t interested at all.” That night in Cambridge, though, praying with a Christian friend, he suddenly felt “a clear sense of something changing, the presence of something that had not been there before in... Read more
By Brandon Hilgemann: Do you speak from an iPad? Any experiences? Any wisdom? 1. THOU SHALL TURN OFF NOTIFICATIONS. 2. THOU SHALL TURN OFF AUTO-LOCK. 3. THOU SHALL LOWER THE BRIGHTNESS. 4. THOU SHALL NOT DRAW ATTENTION TO YOUR IPAD. 5. THOU SHALL USE A PDF READER APP FOR NOTES. 6. THOU SHALL STILL CARRY A BIBLE. 7. THOU SHALL MAKE SURE THE IPAD IS FULLY CHARGED. 8. THOU SHALL HAVE A BACKUP. 9. THOU SHALL NOT LEAVE YOUR IPAD UNATTENDED. 10. THOU SHALL NOT HAVE AN OPEN BEVERAGE... Read more
From John Frye The Pastor and Funerals If there is one area of ministry where some pastors should be charged with malpractice, it is in the conducting of funerals. My primary complaint is that I have attended funerals where the pastor mentioned the deceased’s name maybe once and never again. The pastor did not acknowledge family members present or speak to their grief. The clergyperson piously droned on and on about whatever tasteless pabulum he or she could cook up.... Read more
Imagine a world where ultimate vindication will come, but knowing that ultimate vindication will come does not lead to passivity but to the demand for justice in prayer. So the Parable of the Unjust Judge in Luke 18:1-8. It teaches us not so much to badger God until he gives in, but that God is just, God will bring justice, and we are to go to God in pleading for justice even now as we wait. One of the issues... Read more
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Pete Enns has a couple of interesting posts recently: And the main point of the entire Old Testament is…. followed by The gospel and the transformation of Israel’s story beyond its borders. These posts are worth some thought and some discussion. From the intro to his first post (highlights and emphasis in the original): I was taught in seminary and graduate school, as were many others of my generation and several before that, that the OT doesn’t have “a” central... Read more
In the deepest and earliest Christian creed, what can be called the gospel creed, here’s how atonement is expressed: For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve (1 Cor 15:3-5). In the... Read more
Imagine a world — at Jesus’ invitation — where God is good, where God’s people come to him with their requests, and where God responds to them. Imagine a world where God is good, where God is gracious, where God wants to respond to the needs of his people. Imagine a world where God trust God and so go to him with their needs. The Parable of the Friend at Midnight (Luke 11:5-8; after the jump), which is sometimes read... Read more
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