When Jesus spoke to the church located at Sardis, they were making the same mistake spiritually that their descendants had made militarily centuries before. They had a reputation and they were arrogantly living off of that. Because of their overconfidence, they had left some things unfinished that needed to be done—but they didn’t care. They had started believingContinue reading “Blind Spots and Due Diligence (2)”
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1 Thessalonians
A Great Place To Be The Subversive Gospel (1) Growing off the Ground (1) Mountains And Models (3:7) Paul, Gentleness and Gender (2:7) The Spreading Flame (5:19)
History
911 And Singing On The Steps Aah . . . Hope A Horse, A Desert and Hope A Tornado and a Tragedy Back to Bethlehem Blind Spots And Due Diligence (1) Blind Spots and Due Diligence (2) Faith is a Good Thing Great Expectations Great in God’s Way Known but to God Mind the GapContinue reading “History”
Thinking About Community (3)
It was John Donne who said, “No man is an island, entire of itself . . . Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” The language of Mr. Donne may be antiquated but the truth he spokeContinue reading “Thinking About Community (3)”
Thinking about Community (2)
In the movie Places in the Heart, Moses Hadnot is a drifter who has heroically oversees Edna Spalding’s farm through the planting and harvesting of a cotton crop during the Depression. Shortly after the cotton is taken to the gin, members of the Ku Klux Klan pay him a visit and he is badly beaten. The attackContinue reading “Thinking about Community (2)”
The Church Belongs to God!
We’d had numerous people picking up pecans off the grounds at the church where I used to work. I’d seen many of our members out there. One of our shepherds had been particularly zealous in his collection efforts, shaking the tree branches as well as using some type of extension tool that allowed him to reach up into the trees.Continue reading “The Church Belongs to God!”
The Church and Grace
Artemis was the Ephesian goddess of fertility. The temple to Artemis at Ephesus was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. At 425 feet long and 225 feet wide, it was larger than a football field. It’s roof was supported by 127 columns that stretched 60 feet high. The temple was twice the size of the ParthenonContinue reading “The Church and Grace”
The Beautiful, God-Honoring Choice of Lauren Hill
This post was written in 2014. Ten thousand people came. If you haven’t been inspired by Lauren Hill’s story, you need to check for a pulse. If you’ve been off on a remote island or somewhere with no Wi-Fi, then you need to know that Lauren is a freshman basketball player at Mount Saint JosephContinue reading “The Beautiful, God-Honoring Choice of Lauren Hill”
Teaching or Trivializing?
On the counter at the retail place was a picture of a family and a description of a crisis they were going through. If you wanted to help them out financially you could put your contribution in one of two jars—either the one marked Alabama or Auburn. Let me say at this point that IContinue reading “Teaching or Trivializing?”
Unity and Diversity
As our mission team made its way through the airport in Atlanta, we received several quizzical looks and a few questions. Most people wanted to know if we were actually traveling with each other or if circumstances had somehow conspired to bring two people wearing Alabama colors together with two people wearing Auburn colors. (I was temptedContinue reading “Unity and Diversity”
A Taste of Grace with Bruce Green 