“Unforgivable!” That’s the cry when we are really hurting. I suspect sometimes it means “I can’t forgive that quite yet.” However, sometimes it sounds more like we are working with a confused definition of forgiveness. When I hear people talking about forgiveness it often sounds like they are thinking “Forgiveness means the wound in our […]
What Kind of Relationship Defines Community?
The church was spending weeks and weeks on new mission and vision statements — documents intended to guide their life as a community for the next long while. What should define their life together? I talked to them about biblical pictures of the Church. You know them too: we are Christ’s body, as interconnected as […]
For All Our Physical Needs
They had always wanted a boat — and now they had it. They had always wanted to be in the open ocean — and now they were out there. They had never actually wanted a storm — but now they had one of those too. The pleasure of rolling on steady swells became pitching and […]
The Secret Ingredient Transforming Communities for Mission
I’m asleep in the early morning hours. There is a knock on my door, and a monk lets me know it is time to be in the chapel. Again. Praying. Again. Throughout the day it is a rhythm like breathing. To the chapel to pray. Back out to work. To the chapel to pray. Back out […]
Celebration!
I got word today that two-thirds of the presbyteries in the Presbyterian Church (USA) have approved the new translation of the Heidelberg Catechism! If the next General Assembly gives final approval, it will replace the translation in my denomination’s Book of Confessions. Then, for the first time we will share the same version of this […]
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