Featured: We do not have to despair ...
Good Friday is dark. The compassionate, merciful, God-man dies a criminal's death at the hands of religious and political leaders. The Messiah, full of despair and feeling deserted by God the Father, cries out, "My God, why have you forsaken me?" Even the earth wept and quaked. Yet somehow, we call it good. Emil Brunner, […]
Tonight our A Way of Life class is discussing the chapter from the first manual on worship. This reminded me that I have Mark Labberton’s book “The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God’s Call to Justice” on my shelf. So I opened it up and started to read … Whoa ... I am going to […]
" ... there is only one thing that separates us from God, and it is not our sin. It is our self-righteousness." (James Bryan Smith - The Good and Beautiful God)
Prayer is confusing to us. We have received all kinds of mixed messages … and often we feel paralyzed, inadequate and guilty. I have to believe God does not want us to feel this way. He just wants us to come to him as we are with what we have and to do our best. […]
To tie in to yesterday’s post about how God gives us everything for our enjoyment … These two quotes from the ancient mystic Julian of Norwich: “The greatest honor we can give to God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.” And … “What God most wants is to see you […]
So, I am working on a teaching for Sunday about contentment and generosity. And I stumbled across a word I don’t find often in the Bible; a word I don’t think many of us equate with God. But there it is … right there in the closing passages of Paul’s first letter to Timothy: “Command […]
