Last Sunday was “Christ the King” for those churches guided by the liturgical year. This Sunday we begin a new year with the First Sunday of Advent. Advent is not Christmas — that is the celebration that Christ has come. Advent is about getting ready for his coming. Now, before Advent begins, is a great […]
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The NEXT-to-Last Word in Prayer: “In Jesus’ Name”
Last week I wrapped up my series-within-a-series on the Lord’s Prayer in the Heidelberg Catechism with a post on “Amen!,” the little word we use to wrap up most of our prayers. I made an off-hand remark about the phrase Christians often slip in as the penultimate word: “In Jesus’ name we pray…” To my […]
And Where Does JESUS Want Your Community to Go?
From the response to Monday’s post one thing is clear: I’m not the only one who cares about community and mission. It seems like a bit of a flash point, actually, whether people see community life leading to mission or as something that stands on its own. I want to explain why I’m on this topic: Jesus cares […]
Speaking
I frequently speak at conferences and retreats, as well as in churches. I mine the riches of the past, finding wisdom for today in the movers and shakers of the 2000 years of Christian history. No dry academic, Gary is an engaging speaker who held his audience right to the end. With his rare combination of an […]
The Window Into My Soul
In college I had a lab job doing darkroom work, developing photographs taken by microscopes. The most fascinating were taken through electron microscopes — they revealed the inner structures you could never see from the surface. What looks into our faith like an electron microscope? “Tell me how it stands with your Christology,” says Karl […]