Blessed are the offensive, for they are like Jesus.
Maybe Jesus really is the One. If he is, John the Baptist needs to know. Sitting in prison (see Luke 7), it became John’s driving question. Is this guy the
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From ego to awe
Developmentally, we are designed to move from ego to awe. In our most immature state, our task is to figure out who we are as separate beings from our mothers.
You get what you look for (a primer on spiritual signs)
The gate of heaven is everywhere. – Thomas Merton The story of God in the book of Mark ends with a one-liner that sums up the entire the book of
How to Read the Bible
The year I quit drinking, I got involved a Bible study. Not long into the experience, I was doing the daily assignment at my kitchen table and had an encounter
Are you going on to perfection? (and other strange questions I said yes to)
Every United Methodist pastor since 1773 has answered nineteen historic questions as a way of agreeing to how we will live into this ministry life. I looked at these questions for
I am small and God is big.
I am Adam’s child. I am always stopped by the line in Genesis spoken by Adam when he is caught in his sin. “The woman whom you gave to be
The rise of Methodism and fruit that lasts
I’ve been thinking a good deal lately about how the Holy Spirit actually shows up. As I said in this post, I suspect much of what we attribute to the
I am hungry for more.
I am hungry to see the power of the Holy Spirit in our midst. Hungry. I’m not talking about so much that passes these days for Spirit-filled experiences. We have defaulted
When the Church Hurts (part three)
This post is part three in a three-part series of thoughts about dealing with conflict in the church. In our first post, we looked at biblical stories that model healthy and
When the Church Hurts (part two)
This post is part two in a three-part series of thoughts about dealing with conflict in the church. In our last post, we looked at biblical stories that model healthy
When the Church Hurts (part one)
“Must we always be killing each other? Don’t you realize that bitterness is the only result?” said Abner to Joab, as the sun went down. (from the battlefield at Gibeon,
Just how angry are you?
The Institute for Ethics at Duke University conducted an online survey of about 1,500 people as part of a project designed to measure the morality quotient of Americans. They asked
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