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The journey of Lent
Ash Wednesday Readings: Psalm 95, 32, 143, 102, 130 Amos 5:6-15 Heb. 12:1-14 Luke 18:9-14
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Prayer declaration
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him. (Rom. 8:9, NET Bible)
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The journey thus far
We are into our second month of transition and I’m looking at what is happening, evaluating, and thanking God for a lot of things.
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Being salt and light
Matthew 5:13-14 “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people. You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill cannot be hidden.
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The authority of Scripture — black theology
My challenge for the year is to read more widely from the angles of black and female theologians. My current read is God of the Oppressed by James Cone.
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God of the Oppressed
The scandal is that the gospel means liberation, that this liberation comes to the poor, and that it gives them the strength and the courage to break the conditions of servitude. This is what the Incarnation means. God in Christ comes to the weak and the helpless, and becomes one with them, taking their condition of oppression as his own…
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Crucifixion of the Warrior God — Love Laid a Trap
Greg Boyd in his never-ending book, The Crucifixion of the Warrior God, lays out God’s martial arts program. (This won’t hook you enough to actually read the book, but I’m not going to go into any more detail than that because I would have to take three blog posts to explain it.)
