In his book, The Reason for God, Tim Keller tells the following story:
Andrew Delbanco is a humanities professor at Columbia University. Some years ago he was doing research on Alcoholics Anonymous and was attending AA meetings around the country. One Saturday morning in a New York City church basement he was listening to a “crisply [...]
“LOVED X 3″ was the theme of the retreat, and looking back on it, I see that we were. It felt messy to me as I was going through it: so many of us, and all so different; so many hopes and so many wounds. But of course! That’s the point, isn’t it. (Papa laughs and [...]
Last night, after sharing a meal with our Alpha participants, I attended the second of four dialogue sessions on homosexuality. A couple of years ago the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America mandated that dialogue sessions around this issue occur throughout the denomination before the matter is allowed to be discussed again in 2009. [...]
As we continue this 24/45 prayer journey, there are a couple of hard core questions that we hopefully won’t avoid asking ourselves. Having received God’s welcome and his embracing love in that prayer tent, have we had the courage to ask him if there are any unconfessed sins in our lives; if there is anything we are doing right [...]
During yesterday’s sermon I reflected on what a conversation God had with Abraham might have to teach us about our upcoming 24/45 prayer event. I suggested that during these 45 days God was going to teach us how to trust his promises, how to live with God (specifically how to walk before God, with God as [...]
Isn’t it fascinating that the “official” beginning of the Christmas (shopping) season is called Black Friday? Apparently, use of the term goes back to the 1970’s. Originally it referred to the heavy traffic on that day. Today retailers think of it more as the day they begin to turn a profit, i.e. operate in the [...]
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