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From Ernst Kasemann – “The worship of the Chirstian community should not be dominated by fanatical ecstasy or profound oracle, but by prophecy as a contemporizing of the message of the past. The gospel concretizes and actualizes.” In other words – “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us full of grace and truth (John . . . → Read More: An Incarnate Truth
This article by Mr. Charles Blow in the New York Times is an interesting article that confirms a longer running idea in kids or young adult ministry. I can remember 12 years ago when the catch phrase was mystery. Youth didn’t like “religion”, but they dug that mystery. The opening story of the young . . . → Read More: Spiritual, not religious…exactly the wrong attitude?
Here is an article reviewing a split perception of what “Catholic” Universities do to the faith of their Catholic charges. The money quote… The CARA report now suggests that Catholics at non-Catholic schools tend to fare worse as far as fidelity and practice goes. But the larger issue is that Catholic higher education simply can’t bear all . . . → Read More: Teaching the Faith
There are actually two background stories to this post. The original story is the Tiger Woods saga. No expansion necessary I presume. The secondary story is Brit Hume, the Fox News Analyst and former anchor. Mr. Hume had audacity to publicly practice Christian evangelism. Here is a great round-up of . . . → Read More: Tiger, Tiger burning bright…the audacity of evangelism
Full Text This sermons subject – sexuality and specifically divorce – is a hard word in our culture. Jesus doesn’t allow it – divorce that is. Divorce is not in God’s plan. And we can’t keep that – neither in what our society formally calls marriage, nor in our sexuality that assumes marriage . . . → Read More: The Elephant in the room…Mark 10:1-16
The gospel text for the day was Mark 16:1-20 or the ending of the gospel. The non-scripture reading that was paired with it just bowled me over to the point that you wonder if it was just another “preacher story” – truthfully I would hope that it was a pious fiction, but sorrowfully knowing . . . → Read More: Born in a grave…
Complete Text It has been claimed in the past that I have a problem with authority. There are probably a couple layers of truth to that. First, as a sinful human I do have a problem with authority. My sinful nature wants to be God. But of course that is never what . . . → Read More: Pecking Orders – Mark 9:30-37
The guy puts up seemingly 30 posts a day on a huge variety of topics. There are all kinds of reasons for tuning him out or just not bothering. And then Andrew Sullivan posts something like this… I have never found the theodicy argument against faith convincing. My own faith teaches me that suffering . . . → Read More: Theology of the Cross in the Oddest Places?
Text: 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 Paul makes complete sense, and then he doesn’t. In some ways it is easy to understand Peter when he said of Paul in 2 Peter 3:15-16 – “His letters contain some things that are hard to understand…” The daily readings have been taking us through 2 Corinthians, and I’ve ignored them . . . → Read More: 2nd Corinthians, Visions and Thorns
Full Text The OT text for the day was Isaiah 6:1-8 but I lengthened it to Isaiah 6:1-13. Anything less felt like taking stuff out of context. When you read the rest of that passage the first reaction is, “How did that get in there?” But without the rest you don’t get the gospel. . . . → Read More: Trinity Sunday – “Here I Am, Send me”  2 comments - (Comments are closed)  Isaiah, Sermons, cross, glory, grace  Israel, mission, tough texts |
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