I wonder how many would be “conservatives” would be shocked to find out that they are reductionists, engaged in a “barren and contextless” announcement. If we are asserting the real Gospel, in all its shocking truth, we are issuing a decisive call to conversion and comprehensive transformation of life.
We are so used to censuring and being censured by those who do not have our standards. But to receive the message “Neither do I condemn you,” is so radical an act of majesty.
Another clever feature of their survival was that they had split among the community various sacramental duties that normally would have been under the scope of a single priest.
They’re tired of having so-called Christian words used as knives to stab and slash at their innermost parts. They’re tired of watching us filet each other with them and shred each other apart like julienne fries flying through the blades of a Super Veg-O-Matic.
I think there’s a point in every person’s life where they have to walk away from something because it isn’t productive, isn’t safe or isn’t fulfilling. Sometimes they have to leave everything behind and travel light.
Psalm 69 “O God, you know my foolishness, and my faults are not hidden from you.” One of the Native Youth with whom I work
Truly, every flame has become a sign of his Holy Spirit, the Lord and life-giver, the one who spoke by the prophets.
Truly, the many lights–and there are many–now bear witness to the one true Light.
Truly, all truth, all goodness, and all beauty, wherever they are found, have their source and find their goal in Him.
He thinks for a long time. Finally he says, “I have faith that God doesn’t think that I am dirt.” With that pronouncement, I begin to see a long line of defeated people who never believed that they are valued and cherished. Without this fundamental faith understanding, change is not possible. And faith requires trusting, which is tough on those whose days are overflowing with fractured promises.
The Lord dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised. Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a
However, as we study the Bible, we discover God makes fairly good use of insignificant places, right down to using an insignificant place for the birth of the Savior. … But as it turns out, in the upside down world of God’s Economic Scale, bigger is almost never better.