Too many churches track their turnstiles more than their turnarounds, turnabouts and turning points: There is a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip: “I need to get a heart rate monitor.” The tiger asks “What for?” “To make sure I’m chewing at...
What is going on here? The root system is what grew that first four years. It was growing down and out, not up and up the first four years. The Apostle Paul’s ministry was a Chinese bamboo tree ministry. Because his mission to the Athenians resulted in only a...
Tongues of Fire Lectionary 13 September 2015 16th Sunday After Pentecost Proverbs 1:20-33 Psalm 19 James 3:1-12 Mark 8:27-38 Text to Life There could hardly be a more timely text than this week’s epistle reading, James 3:1-12. This year spells a late Labor Day...
Your Faith Has Made You Well Story Lectionary 13 September 2015 Genesis: The In-Breathing of Adam by the Holy Spirit and God’s Calling Out of Adam and Eve Genesis: The Story of Noah — the Raising Up of New Life and God’s Salvific Power Genesis: The Story of Joseph...
Prayer Before Studying Theology: (For the Church and Those to Be Ordained to Its Ministry) Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, Who hast purchased to Thyself an Universal Church by the precious Blood of Thy dear Son, Mercifully look upon the same, and at this time so...
