Jesus draws people by surprise because his stories are of characters his listeners wouldn’t want to hear about. But my hunch as a writer, storyteller, and ‘theater director’ in these improvisations I’ve seen is that Jesus crafted stories about characters he liked.
God’s future is not that he will be as he was and is, but that he is on the move and coming towards the world. God’s Being is in his coming, not in his becoming. If it were in his becoming, then it would also be in his passing away.
Lord, may you now let us this year once more approach the light, celebration, and joy of Christmas Day that brings us face to face with the greatest thing there is: your love, with which you so loved the world that you gave your only Son, so that all of us may believe in him and therefore not be lost, but may have eternal life.
If you’ve not heard, there’s to be a royal wedding this spring to rival that of Charles and Diana. Here’s just a sampling of the
The General Synod’s vote on the Anglican Covenant (Synod, 26 November) had been well prepared. The organisers made it clear that voting in favour was The Right Answer. Contrary to normal practice, nobody was given the task of summarising the case against, either in the prior paperwork or in the debate itself. The GAFCON Primates [announcement] then turned it into farce.
Reasons for the acceptance of gays in the UK military, African poverty is falling, mortality/wealth progress, a new reason to give in secret, endowed professorship in theology and the environment, General Seminary in the news, Young Adult Service Corp applications.
Bahati said that there was substantial evidence that gays recruited children including the assertion that $15 million of foreign money has been poured into Uganda for that purpose. He commended the editors of a Ugandan tabloid for publishing the photos of allegedly gay Ugandans saying that he would hope that in the future the police would use articles like these to hunt down gay people.
A door opens in the centre of our being and we seem to fall through it into immense depths which, although they are infinite, are all accessible to us; all eternity seems to have become ours in this one placid and breathless contact.
The report recommends that there should be a single diocese, instead of the current three, covering West Yorkshire and those parts of the Dioceses of Bradford and Ripon & Leeds that are in North Yorkshire.
“We tested a handful of churches to see how well they were listening on Twitter. The results were painful, with only one out of 11 churches bothering to reply. Your church doesn’t need to be on Twitter, but if you’re on there (and promoting it on your home page), you should at least be paying attention when people send you messages.” – CMS