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From the moment of Jesus’ conversation with a Samaritan woman right through the day Jesus died on a Cross, on through his Resurrection and Ascension and the outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost, Jesus astonished us with his unpredictable goodness. As Christ’s disciples in 2015 we are now, in the world of domestic tensions and international terrorism, servants of the …
We are all very upset about the fourteen dead in California, the murders in Colorado Springs and the nine African Americans killed in a Charleston church and on and on. Murders committed by proponents of the sacred, ISIS and an end-times obsessed Christian, and by Dylaan Roof, a young man for whom nothing is sacred. The public rants and sloganeering …
Scripture says God was reconciling the world to himself through his Messiah. In Ephesians nine verbs tell us what Jesus has done and what is now real in the Church: Jesus is our peace (2:14), he made us one (vs. 14), he broke down the dividing wall of hostility (vs. 14), created one new humanity (vs. 15), made peace (vs. …
Scripture says, “Iron sharpens iron. And one person sharpens the wits of another.” But for iron to sharpen iron the swords, the blades, must conflict. Blades piercing flesh does not sharpen iron. It is the creative, redemptive friction of the two blades respectfully colliding that leads to more truth on the matter. According to the apostle Paul, nobody, self styled …
What if we started by contemplating that somebody took in Jesus, Joseph and Mary when they fled from Herod into Egypt. Joseph, Mary and Jesus may or may not have been illegal immigrants, but they did what millions of immigrants are doing now: they ran for their lives. We would not have the boy Jesus if someone had not saved …
Many today opt for a sentimental, non judgmental, loving, God, rejecting the biblical vision of a God who judges the world. But are we not reacting against the wildly speculative end times theologies that seem to savor the so-called coming blood bath when God slaughters the unbelievers in an Armageddon nightmare? What if the final judgment of God is fundamentally …
Kim Davis, a Christian clerk in a Kentucky courthouse, recently refused to issue a marriage license for a gay couple. She lawfully exercised her right to disobey the law on grounds that her conscience was violated. It was an act of civil disobedience. Her civil disobedience as a citizen of the United States is certainly her protected liberty. Her disobedience …
