Lent is a season for self-examination. It is not mainly about feeling guilty. It is more like a chance to check the GPS (that might be “God Positioning System” if you like acronyms) and figure out exactly where you have come and where you still have to go. We often describe this life as a spiritual journey, […]
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Free Copy of “Love Your Bible”
To be a competent, confident follower of Jesus, you need more than a few Bible basics. You need Scripture to lead you to growth and new life, consistently, for a lifetime. You need to really love your Bible–but in today’s society, fewer and fewer Christians really do. We get stuck. Some think Scripture is too […]
Deep Church Rising: A Book Review
The twenty-first century churches have a problem. Maybe more than one. We also have more than a few people providing analyses and solutions. Deep Church Rising: The Third Schism and the Recovery of Christian Orthodoxy by Andrew G. Walker and Robin A. Parry (Cascade Books, 2014; $22.00) is a helpful corrective to the culture-bound, superficial diagnoses and prescriptions that get […]
Advent 4–Reading Isaiah (cont.)
Reading great chunks of Scripture can bring surprising gifts. Don’t get me wrong: I’m also a big believer in spending time with very small passages. I’m passionate about the value of classical lectio divina for instance. But I’ve been reading through the sixty-six chapters of Isaiah during Advent (Here are weeks 1, 2, and 3). Taking this book […]
Gratitude, Priority One (Heidelberg Catechism Q94)
Advent is a season of preparation for Christ’s coming. What better time for a little reflection on faith and life. If we were Puritans or Catholics in the Jesuit tradition we might call it “self-examination.” Me, I’m just a 21st Century Presbyterian with a penchant for blogging on the Heidelberg Catechism–that 16th century summary of Biblical […]
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