Evermore Lectionary 22 September 2019 15th Sunday After Pentecost Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 Psalm 113 1 Timothy 2:1-7 Luke 16:1-13 Text to Life Okay, this is just wrong. Wrong and weird. There are now “Botox” ads online specifically geared towards women, and men, in their...
Reappearing Church: The Hope for Renewal in the Rise of Our Post-Christian Culture Mark Sayers –Review by Landrum P. Leavell III, Th.D. Full disclosure: I love Mark Sayers. I’ve read most of his books: The Vertical Self, Disappearing Church,...
If you are not used to looking for metaphors, try underlining them when you read. Then go back and ask yourself….1) is this a noun? 2) is this a tangible object? 3) does this represent something else? If so, what? For example, wind is a metaphor for the breath...
O Lord, accept me in penitence. O Lord, leave me not. O Lord, lead me not into temptation. O Lord, grant me good thoughts. O Lord, grant me tears and remembrance of death and compunction. O Lord, grant me the thought of confessing my sins. O Lord, grant me humility,...
Stephen knew his death was probable. Yet he testified of Jesus. He knew that those who listened hated him, yet he loved them anyway. For Stephen, death was only a transition to eternal life with Jesus. Stephen would be stoned to death, yet he knew more than those...
