How To Have Courage
Even in the midst of our worst fears coming true, the grace and peace of Jesus Christ are sufficient to sustain us through difficulty and deliver us out the other…
Ethics and Preferences
The Local Church: a study in ethics and preferences When it comes to the issue of Church, the make it or break it issue for every Christian is an understanding…
Ethics and Preferences, intro
A man is stranded on a deserted island. For seven years he’s been alone with palm trees and some sand. Finally a bi-plane flies over and the pilot notices the…
Jubilee expressed idealized hopes
The whole concept of Jubilee expressed certain values, certain ideals, certain hopes that placed value upon individuals. It placed value upon heritage and inheritance; it placed value upon family and…
Exaggeration and Irritation
Most Christians tend to think of sin and salvation as issues primarily, if not entirely, about eternity. The Bible does not. Neither does real life. Toil, struggles, power structures, hierarchies…
in:God:ed
Now the seed of God is in us. The seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree; the seed of a hazel tree grows into a hazel tree. The seed of God grows into God. Meister Eckhart, 14th C German 1heologian For He was made man that we might be made God; and He manifested Himself by a body that we might receive the idea of the Unseen Father; and He endured the insolence of men that we might inherit immortality. St. Athanasius, 3rd C Bishop of Alexandria My wife is a big fan of two special words. Other men have wives with special words – I love you, you are my honeybear, my sexypants, etc…Carmel’s special words are these: So what? So what if we’re idols of God? So what if we’re the prophetic antithesis to corrupt Mesopotamian imperialism? So what if we can dissect the qualities of the imago dei? So what does this mean in real life? In order for anyone to see God’s idol – to know that they are in the Kingdom God has created, that they are in the Presence of God – we have to clear away all of the stuff that keeps it hidden. That clearing away consists of persistent repentance and spiritual attentiveness. We must always be asking the…
God’s plan is a little muddier than you might assume
I’m not sure there’s a more destructive idea out there, with less biblical support, than the idea that God has just one plan for your life—just one woman you could…
What you do flows from who you are
Before you begin in any ministerial capacity—before you even ask what you should be doing, or how you should be doing it, or with whom—you need to understand that what…
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