During yesterday’s sermon I talked about the opportunity the homosexuality “issue” affords us to reflect upon key Christian concepts like salvation, grace, repentance, love and judgment. Because of our sometimes narrow and even distorted understanding of these words, we may be ill-equipped to think about, much less talk about a complex issue like homosexuality.
Take the [...]
I’m going to end this series of posts about friendship with Jesus by saying a word about suffering. While “suffering” may seem too big a word to include many of the relatively minor hassles and irritants in our lives, even these lesser interruptions can be unrelenting and disruptive enough to make our days depressing and our relationship with [...]
What’s next? We’ve been praying for what we want; now we’re going to start praying for what God wants. We’ve been praying our own prayers; now we’re going to start praying the Lord’s Prayer.
Okay, that vision of Pete Grieg’s (see yesterday’s post) is a bit over the top. But I love it. I also appreciate the more down-to-earth thoughts he wrote a couple of years later in a book about that vision:
So what are your thoughts about God these days — these 28 days into our 45 day prayer journey?
Yesterday I read this quote from Frederick Buechner:
If you were at BRC this past Sunday, I’m pretty sure you remember this quote: “God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy.” In living with it, I’m starting to see that not only is it startlingly true, it is also startlingly good news.
God created each human being with unimaginable care and delighted love; [...]
I just read something on Jim Martin’s blog (A Place for the God Hungry) that Jim copied from Brian Mashburn’s blog (On Becoming Truer). It’s so good, and it so affirms God’s word to us this past Sunday, that I wanted to share it with all of you. Brian wrote it because his friend had just [...]
Did anybody happen to read the two articles in Sunday’s Gazette about tragedies related to ABC’s Extreme Makeover shows? One article begins at the bottom of the front page and continues on A11; the second (even more troubling) article begins on A11. It’s worth pulling your newpaper out of the recycling bag.
In 2005, “Extreme Makeover: Home [...]
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