-
The tears I hold
When my boys began reaching high school one by one, I found myself carrying emotions in a different way. It may have been that I knew our time with them at home was closing and things were changing. I would cry at their performances (not because they did bad, but because I was just moved by what I watched them…
-
The prophetic and the poetic
The prophetic in the Old Testament was called the poetic by OT scholar Walter Brueggemann. I’ve grown to love that comparison over the years. I was reminded of it again reading this paragraph from a recent article:
-
Quick thoughts for the weekend
Random thoughts that entered my mind this week: We honor the prophets… after we have killed them. I want to stop saying why something “won’t work” and start saying, “LET’S TRY.”
-
The prophetic church
Bonhoeffer asked the powerful question: When will it be that Christianity says the right word at the right time?
-
The oddities of the story of Balaam
The story begins in Numbers 22. The more I read it, the funnier it gets. The more I read it, the more serious an indictment it becomes.
-
We need the true prophetic voice again
“The prophets purge our imaginations of this world’s assumptions on how life is lived and what counts in life. Over and over again, God the Holy Spirit uses the prophets to separate his people from the cultures in which they live and to put them back on the path of simple faith and obedience and worship in defiance of all…
-
The watchman on the wall
I am reading back through Ezekiel these days, asking the Lord about “imagination.” As I read through the early part of Ezekiel again, I am struck by Ezekiel’s call. I also think of Jeremiah’s call. They were to warn clearly regardless of the response. If they didn’t give the warning, God would hold them (the prophets) accountable. In an era where…
-
The need for prophets
“Everyone more or less believes in God or gods. But most of us do our best to keep God on the margins of our lives, or, failing that, we refashion God to suit our convenience.
-
From Pathetic to Prophetic
Let us give up the pursuit of the pathetic, where we think a vote is going to solve all our problems.
-
Turning bitter to sweet
Life is possible. Change is possible. We don’t have to abide in bitterness. We don’t have to ignore the poisonous situation. We can bring the change needed.
Tag: prophets
