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Preparing for Pentecost 15
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xscot mcknight
I don’t think many think of this, so let me make it clear right away: if love of God and love others is the foundation and final expression of what we are designed to be, if Pentecost empowers us to be this, then I want to suggest that Sermon on the Mount is an exposition…
Voice Mail Maze
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xscot mcknight
Our mortgage company sent us a report that for some reason skipped a couple of months. To keep our records complete (and straight), I called the company to request a complete activity report. (The term they use is “activity.”) Here’s what happened (and did not happen):
The Divine Allure
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xscot mcknight
Apologetics is changing in the 21st Century, changing from arguments that rationally prove the truth of Christianity to a gospel that, as Mel Lawrenz calls it, summons humans because of the “divine allure.” In his book, I Want to Believe, what Mel — senior pastor at Elmbrook Church outside of Milwaukee — does is focus…
Preparing for Pentecost 14
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xscot mcknight
The Pentecost community is one that loves God and loves others — and it loves the self properly and it loves the real people of God — and this love of God that loves the self and others reaches out to the needy. Jesus’ brother, younger and one who watched Jesus do the Messianic vocation,…
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