“William Willimon: ….the Trinity teaches us the joy of living our lives out of our control. In his resurrection, Christ forever defeated our fantasies that life is under our control. Stanley Hauerwas: Of all the ministerial practices, pastoral care may be the most...
In an online discussion about a summer reading group on the Book of Joshua, one mother asked how to address a child asking questions about why all of Achan’s family had to die because of him covertly keeping booty from the Jericho campaign as the Hebrews began...
The Most Significant Transformations Take Time And Experience……. Several things in my life have led me to a place where I believe I can finally understand how the prophet Elijah felt after defeating the prophets of Baal in a showdown proposal to the evil King Ahab in...
Numbers 22:26 “Then the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a NARROW PLACE where there was NO WAY TO TURN TO THE LEFT OR THE RIGHT.” Is this a prophetic glimpse of Jesus standing/walking in THE WAY that would set the direction and path of us? Psalms 91:...
It is difficult to teach something that one does not feel she has a good grip on in her own thinking about it. I have generally been taught and have understood “justification” as occurring at a moment in time, an event, defined by the decision to trust...
Matthew 12: 43 “Now when the unclean spirit comes out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept clean, and...
