I am working my way through Ezekiel as the Lord stirs in my heart more about “Living in Babylon.” This was a sermon series I did in 2016, but I left a lot unexplored. The Lord is bringing this back around to me and in this season as I form extended thoughts on this subject, I am being drawn to the vivid imagination of Ezekiel. (Thank you, Eugene Peterson.) Continue reading “Notes from the wilderness”
Tag: Prophetic Voice
Being Prophetic Today — Kenyatta Gilbert and Walter Brueggemann
White Evangelicals in America and the Reckoning We Need
We are still stumbling badly in our witness as American conservative Christians. This past year has left many, including me, wondering about the label “evangelical.” Continue reading “White Evangelicals in America and the Reckoning We Need”
Can we return to a prophetic center?
I am still in the midst of lament over the jury decision last Friday. The officer who killed Philando Castile was acquitted. There is a sense of mourning, of lament, in our community and it needs to be felt. Continue reading “Can we return to a prophetic center?”
The prophetic voice of Frederick Douglass
While America is printing tracts and bibles; sending missionaries abroad to convert the heathen; expending her money in various ways for the promotion of the gospel in foreign lands—the slave not only lies forgotten, uncared for, but is trampled underfoot by the very churches of the land. What have we in America? Continue reading “The prophetic voice of Frederick Douglass”
Return our prophetic voice, O Lord
Our way forward as the Church is to take up the prophetic mantle once again. We need to stand for Kingdom goodness and rightness. It may make us sound like Democrats at times, Republicans at others. We need to learn to BLESS. We need to learn the models of Joseph, Daniel, and Esther.
We need to live in prophetic power again. We’ve not needed to before, but here we are.
