Monthly Archives: August, 2012
Fully Alive
I have not always been a Christian. It was in reading John 10:10 that I glimpsed the life promised through and in Jesus. Jesus didn’t come to point fingers and tell people they were going to hell. The message of Jesus is a call to a life of love not self-righteousness. He calls us to …
Letter To My Future Church
Dear Future Church, This is my first in a series of letters to my future Church. Recently I described how I see that future church, so I will not do that here. In these letters, I wish to send out missives to the future, talking about where I am and looking forward to what might …
Romans 3 The Way Of Grace
Paul now compares the way of the law to the way of grace. It has been said that the law is designed to show us our own weakness and our own sinfulness. It makes us aware of our sin and how fallen this world really is. Does this mean we are cut off from God? …
My Future Church
I have written before how I feel I am being called to be a pastor. At first, I thought I might be a spiritual director or hospital chaplain and while these two ministries may deal largely in my call as pastor, I am feeling called to pastor a church. This Tuesday, I will go in …
N. T. Wright’s Simply Jesus
I have been reading N. T. Wrights’ Simply Jesus. It is a marvelous book. Reading it for me was as exciting and breath-taking-away as reading a thriller. Wright used the idea of a perfect storm to talk about the current debates about who Jesus is and whether or not God is real and the swirl …
Ruth 2 Small Act Of Kindness
Ruth has a ‘lucky break’ of ending up in Boaz’s filed, yet the story hints that it wasn’t lucky at all. God often works in the insignificant. God shows up more often in the messy, incomplete, and unholy people than the super-spiritual people. In my own recent history, I see God working in and through …
Jesus, Homosexuality, and Me
Ok. Here I go again. I just might piss some people off with this. I feel compelled to share this. I hope you will keep an open mind and heart as you read this. That you will not think less of me as a blogger, fellow Christian, and human being. Let’s begin with what Jesus …
Love More People
August 15th was People Appreciation Day. This event on Facebook was created and sponsored by Andy McFly and Mike Morrell. The description on the page reads Here’s an idea whose time has come: Let’s take someone whose life or beliefs are different from yours (an atheist, Muslim, Buddhist, or Christian; someone who’s gay, straight, bi, …
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