This post is from Bev Mitchell… His information is at the bottom. The opposite of love is power In the beginning of God’s creating the skies and the earth – when the earth had been shapeless and formless, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and God’s spirit was hovering on the face of the water – God said, “Let there be light.” And there was light. (R.E. Friedman, Commentary on the Torah) Yet, in Matthew’s gospel we... Read more

Some time back a Fuller student, Graham Bates, asked me to post a survey he was doing, and he recently notified me of the results. What I was so happy about is the number of us here at the Jesus Creed who responded — leading to the conclusion that the survey became a sketch of the readers of this blog. Anyway, here are the results. I’ll split what I learned into two headings: Things I Already Knew and Things that Surprised Me.... Read more

Flannery O’Connor: There is a great deal that has to either be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work. Habit of Being, 176. I doubt good ol’ Flannery had golf in mind, but that’s how I feel it. Read more

Move over, Shane, here comes Joshua: Joshua Smith is a 9-year-old boy who gets things done. His home city of Detroit is currently suffering from serious financial hardship, preventing it from providing some basic services, like maintaining the city’s parks. Frustrated with being unable to play due to the amount of rubbish on the ground, Joshua decided to take things into his own hands. He set up a lemonade stand and started selling organic lemonade, fruit punch, water and popcorn in his... Read more

This comes from Casey Tygrett, pastor and blogger. I like the arc in this post taking us into time travel and back to where we are … with insight. I often think of what would happen if we suddenly had access to an affordable form of time travel. You know, the kind in the movies that took us backward or forward in time. I’d throw on my puffy down vest and Levi’s with suspenders and head back to, say, 1986... Read more

By Patrick Mitchel, a friend and professor at Irish Bible Institute in Dublin. Someone I’m close to recently went through a ‘near death’ experience after major surgery. I’d heard of such experiences but never given them much thought one way or another. If pushed, I’d probably have given them little weight in terms of authority or reliability. Too much room for wishful thinking, subjective individualistic interpretation and the influence of powerful anaesthetics to put much trust in compared to God’s... Read more

More than one bookstore has closed; more that one bookstore owner has expressed sorrow over the shifting tides of how folks buy books. I still like to browse through bookstores, but I admit openly and candidly that I buy books through the internet and not very often from a bookstore. The same will happen with clothing, but this new 3D technology may change the face of shopping beyond recognition and it may not only lead to internet shopping but also... Read more