Brant Pitre, in his new book, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper, examines what Jews were expecting when it came to the Messiah. This may seem like an odd place to begin in understanding Eucharist, but if you are a 1st Century Jew it is the only place one could have begun. I said this very thing but repeat it because we are looking at points 3 and 4. While it... Read more
Almighty God, whose blessed Son was led by the Spirit to be tempted by Satan: Come quickly to help us who are assaulted by many temptations; and, as you know the weaknesses of each of us, let each one find you mighty to save; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Read more
Chicago — Spring is coming! Michael Hyatt knows a lot about blogging, and here’s a good introductory post for those who are thinking about setting up a blog. Speaking of Michael, Michael Mercer rants about the church worship wars: “The bottom line for me involves what it means to be the church, what it means to be a pastor, and what it means for God’s people to gather for worship. Through the years of skirmishes and battles, I have tried to approach the... Read more
From :mic: Every spring it is time to start thinking about resolutions for Lent, typically those things from which we are choosing to abstain in an act of self-denial. For the most part evangelicals have been tongue-in-cheek regarding Lenten fasts, as though our 40-day lack of donuts or soda will do the job at aligning our spirit with the sufferings of Christ. Sometimes it is more serious than that, and some people take up the challenge quite dramatically. And sometimes,... Read more
Tim Keller’s newest book, King’s Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus, examines big questions through the Gospel of Mark. Chp 6 is called “The Waiting” and the whole chp is about patience, the patience of God and our desire to hurry God. Questions: Do you see impatience in the synagogue leader? Do you see Jesus concerned with patience? Do you see Jesus transforming requests into more than what one expected? He examines Mark 5’s stories... Read more
On the first page of the Gospel of Mark, at least on the first page in my Bible, we hear some words of Jesus. Those words are the summary statement of Jesus: 14 After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. 15 “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!” 16 As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw... Read more
From Tim Dalrymple, taking dead aim at those who ask What Jesus would cut? My own take on this is to mention this saying of Jesus: “where your treasure is there is your heart.” Does this mean also “where your budget is there is also your heart?” A common liberal slogan holds that “budgets are moral documents.” Yet this is not literally true. A document cannot be moral anymore than a brick can be entrepreneurial. Morality requires responsibility, and responsibility... Read more
I recently received, compliments of the publisher, a copy of a new book by Karl Giberson and Francis Collins The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions. This book has its origins in the avalanche of questions unleashed on Collins following the publication of his book The Language of God. From Giberson’s Acknowledgments: Letters and emails poured in, asking for wisdom and insight. Readers wanted to dig deeper. Many had questions not addressed in The Language of... Read more
Miroslav Volf, Professor at Yale, on the dedication page of his new book — Allah: A Christian Response, says this: To my father, a Pentecostal minister who admired Muslims, and taught me as a boy that they worship the same God as we do. Volf’s quest is to build a theological basis for peaceful co-existence and peaceful cooperation among Muslims and Christians, and his quest is to contend that the God of the Christians and the God of the Muslims... Read more
What do you think? Has evangelicalism shifted so much at the grassroots level that it is headed either for a crack-up (split) or will it retain the coalition? Richard Flory, at Southern Cal, has this post and I clipped the opening. Several recent reports suggest that the evangelical Christian world, as we have come to know it over the last 30 years, may be changing forever. Much has been written since the last presidential election about the rise of a... Read more
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