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The public square and Christian voices
I am grateful for solid Christian thinkers and communicators who stand in the public square to bring solid comment to our current cultural messes.
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The way of revolution
The Second Sunday of Advent was about John the Baptist (as will be the Third Sunday) and I had jotted some notes down about the way of repentance. The way of John the Baptist comes at a critical time in the life of Israel. Rome has been in power and now they’ve encroached on the land with a heavy hand.…
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Serious heartbreak
The past 9-10 years have opened up so much spiritually for me. The hardest has been spiritual disappointment, which has led to more determination from me to go deeper with God and walk away from a lot of “form without the power.” Still… the heartbreak is there. This week’s OT passage from Isaiah captures this powerfully. It is difficult to…
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The way ahead is tough, necessary, and glorious
I have been reviewing the month of May in my journaling and notes and found there have been only two places that have been a catalyst for a longer exploration, though “longer exploration” is a bit of a misnomer as they took me on a path of further Scriptural exploration that was a few days… not months. Yet, in these…
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“We are all more or less wrong”
An excerpt I read from a letter reflecting on the heartache in the Middle East. The quote is from Thomas Merton:
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Lord, let me see again
Luke 18:35-43 It is my deep prayer that the American church will one day cry out again for mercy from the Lord Jesus Christ. To repent of their desire for power, repent of their greed, and call out on God’s mercy for the way they were complicit in racism and mistreatment of immigrants.
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Our cultural blindness
Over the past several years I have become more aware of a blindness we carry in the American white evangelical church regarding sin.
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The release we need in repentance
Lent is a season of contrition. It is sensing the sin against God and dealing with the ugliness. We have fallen short of the glory of God and there is a feeling in that, not just a forensic fact to have presented in court.
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The purpose of Lent
“Lent is a season of repentance and preparation. In many churches, it is a time when those who will be baptized prepare for their new life with God. It is a time when those who have been estranged from the church can be reconciled to the body of believers. It is also a time for all of us to think…
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The healing we refuse
My daily office reading has my New Testament reading in Revelation to finish out the year. I needed to land this NT Wright quote on Revelation 6 somewhere, so I place it here. It is a stark reminder to how we, as American Christians, have been asleep at the wheel for so long.
Tag: Repentance
