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Engaging Scripture
A newer resource I saw on Biblegateway.com looks exciting. It is a resource to help people walk through several ways to engage Scripture. The main page is HERE. The explanation of “Scripture Engagement” is HERE. This looks to be an excellent resource for spiritual reading of Scripture.
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The goodness of people
I love the stories of people simply doing good. One story that came out this week was a man who walked to work more than 10 miles each way in Detroit. He wanted to work, he loved his job, and he wasn’t going to quit because he had to walk. It was a tremendous show of hard work and loyalty.…
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Love your enemies… really
I have long been a fan of the columnist David Brooks and this piece may be one of his finest. I know it is refreshing to my thinking right now regarding ISIS. When I read “conservative” Christians respond to ISIS and the beheadings, the first thing I often hear is how evil Islam is… and the corollary that goes unsaid…
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Isn’t it time to grow up?
I have had a couple of significant conversations in the past few weeks with people reaching out to me, thankfully, about being hurt by a church, or disillusioned. Read enough on the internet and all we hear is angst. The ultimate goal of angst-filled writers is to be quoted on Huffington Post, I think. It’s the Super Bowl of angst-filled…
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Prayer for the day
A Collect for Guidance Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our…
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The simple things that matter
Being circumcised or not being circumcised doesn’t matter in Christ Jesus, but faith working through love does matter. (Gal. 5:6) Keep it simple, saints.
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Prayer for the Day
A Collect for Peace O God, the author of peace and lover of concord, to know you is eternal life and to serve you is perfect freedom: Defend us, your humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely trusting in your defense, may not fear the power of any adversaries; through the might of Jesus Christ our…
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Prayer and lifting up the hurting in this world, Pt 2
Nathan Foster in his book The Making of an Ordinary Saint talks about prayer and not having words. He was praying for his daughter when she was sick and he ran out of words. He could only cry and light a candle. His father answered that we can only do what we can in prayer. Words are inadequate at times. “Prayer…
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Prayer and lifting up the hurt in this world
Up to this point as I’ve read The Making of an Ordinary Saint by Nathan Foster, I’ve felt the unevenness of his writing. He is not as good in that skill as his father, Richard. He is incredibly honest and I have been refreshed by that honesty. The reading this week included a chapter on prayer. Richard Foster still has one of…
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Who does Jesus rail against?
“I really like how Jesus never had a harsh word for the broken but railed, with very colorful language, on those who thought they had it all together. I wonder if the harsh words were what they needed to crack their pompous shells. The sinners knew their brokenness; the religious didn’t. I’m starting to think pride is the biggest hindrance…
