Let the story work on you before you work on a story. Don’t theologize until you let the story put your soul through a work-out To access this post, you must purchase Standard Membership, Standard Membership - Yearly, Video Membership, Video Membership - Yearly,...
My favorite gospel, the Gospel of John is “the flower of all Scripture,” wrote third century theologian Origen of Alexandria (184-254). Its roots go so far down that the gospel’s “deep and hidden meaning no one can ever fully gather.” Gregory the Great (AD 540-604) in...
“Jesus of the Scars” By Edward Shillito (1872-1948) IF we have never sought, we seek thee now, Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars, We must have sight of them—pricks on thy brow, We must hare thee, O Jesus of the Scars. The heavens…...
A Prayer For Everyone, but especially written for Preachers on their Sunday Afternoon Fill my life with laughter, Lord, with things to smile about; with the ability to see the funny side of things, with the grace to take a joke and laugh at myself. Thank you for the...
Cocoon or Chrysalis? This would make a good sermon title and theme. The church can either shroud you in a cocoon of safety and religiosity, or enfaith you in a chrysalis of change and metamorphosis. The “sheltering arms” do not domesticate us in a playpen, but prepare...
The Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) had claimed that being in love was essentially a matter of attention abnormally fixed. He says, “Falling in love, initially, is no more than this: attention abnormally fastened upon another person.” His claim...
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