In Matthew 25.31-46, Jesus tells a story he likens to the kingdom of heaven wherein a king separates people like a shepherd separates sheep from goats. To the goats the king says, among other things, “I was hungry and you did not feed me. …I was in prison and you did not visit me.” They … Continue reading “More Prisons is Not the Answer”
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VLOG: S2E4 RE-REFORMATION
Episode 4 on RE-REFORMATION honors the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation and takes a look at how “reformation” never really ends. We are always being formed and re-formed according to God’s love. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to my YouTube channel, or subscribe to this blog in the space to the right.
VLOG-Season 1, Episode 8: The Devil Made Me Do It!
I was asked a month or two ago to prepare a class on the Devil from a Presbyterian/Reformed understanding. I worked really hard on that class because, to be honest, I had never really done a whole class on the satan (in Hebrew it is more often a title than the name of a celestial … Continue reading “VLOG-Season 1, Episode 8: The Devil Made Me Do It!”
Kick the Can
In his new book, The Great Spiritual Migration, Brian McLaren offers an image of opening a can of Coca-Cola, take a sip, and gagging at the taste–it’s gone bad. You open another can in the case. Terrible. Another. Bleh. By the time you get to the fourth or fifth can, it is unlikely you will … Continue reading “Kick the Can”
God is Love – the Nature of Being
If you don’t subscribe to the daily meditations of Fr. Richard Rohr, a Franciscan priest and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in New Mexico, I encourage you to do so. His depth and insights are both challenging and encouraging at the same time—I like that kinda thing. Most of his meditations are drawn … Continue reading “God is Love – the Nature of Being”