Light Lent
Lent can be about renewing our relationship with God in Jesus Christ. The focus can be the newness we desire more than the “oldness” we have.
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Bible | Church Life | Opinion
Bingo
In the 1980s, in the midst of the controversies that lead to the formation of the United Reformed Churches, my wife said that it seemed that “these three things remain, faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is” truth as I see it. We need to return to 1 Corinthians 13 to see that it is in the context of church life, not marriage, that Paul says,
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Pilgrim beginnings
Pilgrimage is my primary life metaphor. One of my favorite texts is Psalm 48, a pilgrim song about going around Zion to be oriented in life. I recall getting students out of the classroom to walk, literally and literarily, through the Abraham story by moving around campus.
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No weed pulling
Don’t pull weeds. It’s not our job, and we are not good at it. Grow wheat.
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Of wheat and weeds
Our theology is limited. We are not God. The Bible does not fully explain the origin of evil. Its focus is on our responsibility, especially when we act as if we are God. Evil was not planted by God, and we will never fully understand it.
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It’s all about the cloud
We look forward to that cloudy day, but give witness today guided and guarded by God’s cloud. It’s all about the cloud.
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Building on the cornerstone
The cornerstone of Christian education is to see God in all things, with a goal to help students build on this foundation.
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Heavenly thinking now on earth
Heaven’s way is: peace, not power; mercy, not might; service, not self.
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Wrestling with God
I tried wrestling once in high school, and that was enough to know it was not for me. I don’t like wrestling, but I do it quite a bit. I wrestle with God. I wrestled on election day in the U.S. I wrestle with understanding my place in the world. We all wrestle.
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‘Holy Trinity’
“I have to make sure when I go out to have the ‘holy trinity.’” Recently, I heard a preacher say this in a sermon. At first I was not sure what he meant. Then he said, “I check for my keys, my wallet and my phone.”
