Excerpted from: Grace and Lies: A Mars Hill Story Clifford Smith on January 26, 2023 (Published at Juicy Ecumenism Website) ……Mark Driscoll had had a stormy and controversial history. This author’s story struck me a bit shockingly. This is an...
From 2016: God often “flips the script”…..As Jacob’s son Joseph told his jealous and deceitful brothers many years after their betrayal of him, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good” Genesis 50:20a. No matter that...
I had pondered why Jesus was born in the line of Judah instead of that of Jacob’s firstborn, Reuben, as might have been expected based on the Jews’ emphasis on the firstborn’s rights. On the surface of it I didn’t see the rationale. I knew in my spirit that the answer...
Sermon For A National Day of Prayer for COVID 19 Carillon Chapel March 15, 2020 Blessings and Curses Responsive Reading- Psalm 95 Leader: O come, let us sing for joy to the LORD, Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with...
My husband, Bill, is a kind and generous and morally grounded individual. He has expressed annoyance at times about the way in which David is held up as an example for Christians, given his many failings. And being called “a man after God’s own heart” is particularly...
