Yesterday I wrote that part of the uniqueness of Jesus lies in the fact that he was the first to announce that the Kingdom of God is here…it has arrived! He also invited us to participate in it, and insisted that as we do, we should not carry a staff. To me, this is an [...]
Brian McLaren, in his new book, Everything Must Change, has a chapter titled “Which Jesus?” In it, he talks about all the various images of Jesus there are in our world today. In my own reading and study, I’ve discovered that there are about as many Jesuses as there are books about him. Some of them [...]
Dr. Kristi Swenson teaches Hebrew Bible at Virginia Commonwealth. In a recent comment on the Christian Century’s blog, she wrote something that I shared with my Disciple Class a couple of weeks ago:
“The first Bible class I took in college made me angry….I fumed as the professor taught that Isaiah’s “for unto us a child [...]
There is probably no sin more prevalent in the Christian church than that of partial truth as a false witness. God can be experienced but not explained. Words can point to God, but they cannot contain God. Our creeds tell true stories of faith, but a creed can never capture the ongoing stories. God is [...]
You may have heard about Homer and Mary Lou. Homer and Mary Lou were courting on the front porch swing. And Homer was very much in love with Mary Lou, but he was a little shy and had some difficulty about mustering up the courage to express his love. Knowing his limitations, he tried to [...]
We live in a day and age in which it is fashionable to blame others for the way we have turned out. There seems to be a constant parade of movie stars and other celebrities who are quick to blame their parents, or their teachers, or the crowd they hung out with, for the fact [...]
Here’s a final lesson from Jesus about prayer: As long as you hold a grudge against another person, your prayer life, and thus your relationship with God, will never be as good as it could be. Here’s what Jesus said:
If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you [...]
Now the second thing: You don’t need to repeat yourself. In Jesus’ sermon he said:
And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition, as the Gentiles do, for they suppose they will be heard for their many words. Therefore do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask [...]
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