Oct 5, 2020 | Choice, Practices
When you get under someone’s skin, they let it out with a yelp, like a pinched puppy. Now struggling with a crisis of conscience because of something you said, they have to do something. Their first impulse is to throw it back at you. They say, “What do you want from...
Aug 19, 2020 | Choice, Practices
I don’t remember when we first sang it. I don’t know when we decided to make it our weekly theme song. (It’s been years.) I’m told we don’t play it like the recordings, or like other churches sing it. I haven’t bothered to check. I can never remember who wrote it, and...
Aug 10, 2020 | Choice, Practices
The Parable of the Loving Father (Luke 15) is better known as the Parable of the Prodigal Son. You know this one: the boy who gets his piece of the family fortune, blows it all, and slinks home, only to fall half-dead into the arms of his father, who wants nothing...
Aug 5, 2020 | Choice, Practices
Paul, a traveling evangelist, makes his way to Athens, Greece, a center and seat of culture, knowledge, philosophy and law. He looks around the city, and sees lots of statues and markers and religious expressions. One of these is a marker dedicated to an unknown god:...
Jun 25, 2020 | Choice, Practices
In my early twenties, I was steeped in God life. I was in seminary, ministry school. Reading the Bible intensively, and reading about the Bible intensively. Studying ministry and mission for best practices for the present and the future. Talking constantly with other...
