TMP: July 2016 Discipleship Post 2
It’s now the middle of our second day in the Philippines, and two phrases stand out the most. “Will your God feed me?” “Can we eat that gospel of yours?”…
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Theology
TMP: July 2016 Discipleship Post 1
The end of our first day working in the Philippines has come. Right now, I’m feeling exhausted at a level that I can barely describe. From the looks of it,…
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Our hearts don’t consciously will injustice. Nor do they deliberately withhold compassion. Nor is it that tales of injustice fail to grab and concern us. Yet, our hearts are weak and confused. Our hearts are easily overwhelmed and self-protective. They are prone to be absorbed mostly with the immediacy of our own lives. Our hearts have the capacity to seek justice, but they are usually not calibrated to do so – at least not beyond concern for our inner circle. In a world of such hearts, virulent injustice thrives.
Mark Labberton, The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor
Justice and Righteousness
Much is being said in the realm of social justice right now. Much of what is being said is worth the discussion. As I have contemplated some of my own…
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Prophetic proclamation is an attempt to imagine the world as though YHWH – the creator of the world, the deliverer of Israel, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ whom we Christians come to name as Father, Son, and Spirit – were a real character and an effective agent in the world.
Walter Brueggemann in The Practice of Prophetic Imagination
The Contest of Two Narratives
A battle is waged every day between the two narratives of our lives. The dominant narrative states that what we experience in day to day life is normal and expected.…
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Jesus, Demons and Questions
As I read Mark 1:21-28 this week, a series of questions ran through my head. Questions alone are not unusual for me. Actually, questions are a daily occurrence. Take a…
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The Course of History
Do we really affect that much? I really want to say yes, but there are too many cautionary tales which tell me that succumbing to the tendency toward aggrandizing our…
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Jesus Followers
Yet another lawsuit settled. This lawsuit involved the wrongful death of a man due to smoking. Now brace yourself; the settlement was for $23.6 billion (not million but billion). So,…
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