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Rich, Famous And Unhappy
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. Luke 18:25. I’m looking at the man in the mirror, I’m helping him to change his ways. I’m looking at the man in the mirror, If you want […]
The Kingdoms Of This World
Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. Matthew 8:20. Frank Sinatra, did life ‘his way’. Kitty Kelley’s ‘Unauthorized Biography’ describes how, early in his career, his publicity agent, George Evans, hired twelve long-haired, round-faced girls and paid them five dollars […]
The Religious Dimension
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. James 1:27. You’ve heard Jung’s famous comment, ‘Among all my patients in the second half of life… every one of them fell ill because they had […]
A Song In Your Heart
And when they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Matthew 26:30. Contemporary Christian worship is almost 50% singing. At Bethlehem the Good News came not in a sermon, but in a song. When Jesus shared his last meal with his friends in the shadow of the cross, they sang […]
Two Ways Of Reading The Bible
Oh, how I love your law! It is my meditation all day long. Psalm 119:97. There are two ways, broadly speaking, we can read the Bible: ‘Bible study’ and lectio divina. In Bible study we mainly use our head; in lectio divina, our heart. Bible study is reading the Bible for doctrine; lectio divina is […]
Failure
OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF FAILURE We pray to God… that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed. 2 Corinthians 13:7. ‘We regret we are unable to give you the weather. We rely on weather reports from the airport, which is closed because of the weather. Whether we are able […]
After The Deluge
As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Matthew 24:37. Noah preached righteousness in the context of a massive flood. So did many preachers in America after the 20-foot-plus 1993 Midwest floods. And they had plenty of material about the human condition to work on in their […]
Disabilities And The ‘Work Of God’
Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? John 9:2 The Messiah, it was predicted, would give sight to the blind (Isaiah 29:18; 35:5; 42:7). This is the only miracle recorded in the gospels where the sufferer was said to have been afflicted from birth. But, Jesus’ friends wanted to know, […]
Covenants And Creeds
The faithful God… maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments. Deuteronomy 7:9. Covenant is an important ingredient in building community. A covenant is more than a contract. Covenants bind us together by voluntary intent, and the ‘penalties’ for breaking the covenant are relational. Contracts carry legal obligations and penalties, and […]
Preaching
GOOD PREACHING (1) How are they to call on one in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in one of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone to proclaim him? Romans 10:14. ‘Going to worship’ is more than ‘going to preaching’. In the U.S. […]
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