Is there a thought, a story, an event, something you heard about or saw with your own eyes, that when you recall it, still makes you stop? Something that still fills you with child-like wow? Still makes you wonder, marvel, want to say, wait did that really happen? There is for me. It came around […]
Tag: Christian Spirituality
A bill recently passed in the Kansas House would allow any individual, business or religious group with “sincerely held religious beliefs” to refuse services, facilities, goods, employment or employment benefits related to any same-sex marriage or domestic partnership. It’s called “The Religious Freedom Protection Act” and I have friends who are on both sides of […]
This is the fifth of five blog posts exploring the question “what is the Gospel?” Not meant to be an exhaustive study, just a relevant one, we’ve looked at a number of New Testament passages. It might be useful, in thinking about the Gospel, to ask what is it for, or what it is the […]
This is the fourth of five blog posts asking the question “what is the Gospel?” We looked at passages from Paul, Peter and the writer of Hebrews. But do we have any good indication what Jesus himself understood the Gospel to be? Yes, we do. The Gospel of Luke contains a story that gives us […]
(This is the third of five posts on what is the Gospel of Jesus, the first two being “Merry Christmas. And…What Is the Gospel?” and “Pay Close Attention to What Matters Most”) What do we think the Gospel is? And what difference does it make for us? Some of us who think of ourselves as […]
First century Jews who became Christians in the first years of the Church experienced enormous pressure to renounce Christ and return to Judaism. A letter was written to encourage them by clarifying the nature of Christ, his ministry and what it meant for them. We know that work as the Letter to the Hebrews. The […]
So here’s how the story goes. A man becomes seriously ill to the point it’s life-threatening. His sisters are worried. They send an urgent message to a family friend who is a phenomenal teacher and healer. Come quickly. Please, it’s urgent. He doesn’t. The man dies. For four days Lazarus is dead. Since so few […]
