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Kris and I will be going to Ireland in about a month and I have already picked the book I will read on the plane: Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy . This year I began both my 4th Yr Seminar classes and the Spring Jesus classes by reading portions of Bonhoeffer’s books: Life…

The Eucharist, though many today have never experienced it in such a manner, was part of a meal and not an isolated sacred set of rites. The meal-shaped Eucharist begins with Jesus: his routine evening meals with his disciples gave rise to the “last” supper. And that last supper was the last one until he…

O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns…

Book Review of Barbara Rossing, The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation . By Andy Holt, who blogs at: The Sometimes Preacher. Full disclosure by Andy Holt, writer of this review: I’ve never believed in the rapture. It’s nowhere to be found in the Scriptures, and the very idea of…

This picture is of two Iceland Poppies. Bought at the same time (there’s a third behind the big guy). Same size last summer but then… one of them has grown beyond all measure, no flowers, and we wonder why. Last year they were identical size, but the big one just kept growing (and stayed green…

Our new neighbor. He asked me where the blue parakeets were. I told him I was his blue parakeet. But if he didn’t mind himself, he’d be my blue parakeet. This was flippin’ fun! This is a good reminder. And this is changing, resistance notwithstanding. In support of open membership with Mike Bell (at iMonk’s…

“Sunday’s Coming” Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo.

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Ours is the decade of memoirs, especially faith memoirs. I think of Anne Lamott’s uproarious and serious stories, but many are following her path to tell the honest-to-goodness of one’s life. I think of Susan Isaac’s genuine, sometimes heart-breaking and other times just leg-slapping funny, personal memoir called Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but…

Every now and then a new book presses home, usually from a bewilderingly new angle, an old theme in such a way it gets me to thinking. And I was reading such a book when Nancy Beach, a teaching pastor at Willow Creek, gave her inspiring and insightful talk last weekend on Sabbath. Judith Shulevitz,…
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