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Martin Luther King Jr’s Greatest Gift to Posterity
A few years back, musician Jon Foreman (of Switchfoot & Fiction Family) released a solo project, which included the track “Learning How to Die.” The song includes this poignant refrain: All along...
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God Is Not Worried
via lamp-of-diogenes.blogspot.com Here’s a good word for anyone fretting over her future. Many of us good Christians have the notion that God is, well, perfect. And rightly so. Did not Jesus instruct...
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100+ Million People Watched the Super Bowl; Was God Watching Too?
via publicreligion.org Well over 100 million people watched last night’s power outage – way more than watch a typical regular season black out. Think about it: the Super Bowl yields the power of...
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Jesus’ Tea Party
El Greco’s “Last Supper” via wikipaintings.org I’m a self-professed Wrightophile, so in preparation for some reflections on the Lord’s Supper, I was scanning NT Wright’s take on Mark 14:12-25 in Mark...
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More of You AND More of Me
via hiscrivener.wordpress.com “Jesus, take the wheel.” ”Let go and let God.” ”God, I need more of You and less of me.” I could not say how often I’ve heard Christians recite these and similar...
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The Arena of God’s Will
via julieflygare.com A few weeks ago, I assured you that God is not worried about your future. Update: He’s still not worried. Since then, I’ve been thinking about this issue a bit more and chatting...
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God’s Multi-Dimensional Will
Two dimensions of God’s will. Last week I was thinking that the Lord’s will for individual believers is rather wide. Or at least, wider than we typically allow ourselves. It’s not a straight line to...
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Field Guide to Forgiveness
Forgiveness. It is at the center of what it means to live like Christ. Jesus’ instructions to his own disciples were myriad, including his famous command to Peter that he ought to forgive someone not...
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An Appeal to Messiah College: Retain Your Heritage
Not too long ago, Messiah College (my alma mater!) tenured professor Eric Seibert posted a few guest blogs on Peter Enns’s Rethinking Biblical Christianity (#1, #2, #3). The subject of the posts was...
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And This, My Friends, Is God’s Love
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. This is perhaps the most common refrain in Israelite worship, with some iteration found in Psalms 100, 106, 107, 118, 136; throughout...
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Another Victory for Love
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. Let Israel say: “His love endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say: “His love endures forever.” Let those who fear the Lord say:...
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NT Wright on the Gospel
INTERVIEW WITH NT WRIGHT from Evangelical Alliance on Vimeo. NT Wright gives a brief interview on the Gospel. There is so much gold here, including The need for each generation to grow up in the...
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You Don’t Have a One-Track Mind; Why Would God?
via positivelyparkinsons.blogspot.com Does our typical understanding of God’s foreknowledge paralyze us? The most common way of understanding God’s omniscience in the Christian west is to assume that...
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Timothy Cardinal Dolan: Culture of Life
Confession: My general stance is pro-life, though I’ve hardly been vocal about it. Perhaps to my credit, I’ve been disturbed or incensed at some of the ways believers have prosecuted the pro-life...
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A Brief Tribute to Dallas Willard, in Memorium
via dwillard.org Sadly, Dallas Willard died yesterday morning at age 77. The world is the worse for this loss. The world was made better by his life. If you’re not familiar with Dallas Willard, he...
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A Poem for Mother’s Day
In honor of Mother’s Day, I present this poem, which I did not write, but expresses all there is to say about Mother’s Day. You’re welcome.
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Three Things You Don’t Know about Paul, but Should
Six months later, I’ve finally gotten around to finishing EP Sanders’s epic classic, Paul and Palestinian Judaism. For those not in the know, Sanders’s 1977 forever shifted the course of both Pauline...
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One More Thing You Should Know about Paul, but Don’t
via villanova.edu We said yesterday that salvation by grace was not a new idea that came with Paul. In fact, it wasn’t even his primary way of thinking about salvation, according to EP Sanders in Paul...
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The Jewish Story Is a Love Story
Unwittingly feeding my thoughts in the wake of reading EP Sanders’s seminal Paul and Palestinian Judaism, my rabbi friend said a remarkable thing in front of a classroom of Evangelicals last night....
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