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The Law, the OT, and Christians
Over the past couple of weeks we have been poking around various issues of the relationship of Christians with the scriptures of Israel. It all started with some musings on why Christians don’t keep...
View ArticleRansom–Slavery or Guilt?
Typically, the evangelical churches I run in the ways we talk about the death of Jesus have to do with guilt. Specifically, they have to do with paying the punishment incurred by our faithlessness and...
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“Deutsches Requiem”
On vacation last week, I did what vacating people do: I read. Short stories, mostly. (Pro Tip: when the most free time you’ll ever have to read ever in your whole life is 30 minutes or less due to the...
View ArticleSell Your Stuff, Then We’ll Talk
The story of the rich man who sorta kinda wanted to follow Jesus (Mark 10) is well known. He wants to follow, right up to the point where it starts to hurt: sell all your stuff and come follow. Not so...
View ArticleWorld Vision and Being a Disciple
This week, as the World Vision kerffufel was unfolding, I saw a phrase from Denny Burk that caught my eye. He concluded from his survey of scripture: Thus it is impossible to be a “follower of Christ”...
View ArticleThe Problem with Rich
The problem with “rich” is that I know, instinctively, that it doesn’t apply to me. My dad would sometimes pull the sly smile as he claimed wealth: the love of the family, the rewarding life, you know,...
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The Perfect Who Suffer
This week’s LectioCast offers a guided tour through passages with perfect sufferers: Job and Jesus as described in Hebrews. And, yes, there might just be a Mountain Goats reference in there somewhere...
View ArticleOf Power, Failure, and Firearms
The Jesus story is a rabbit hole. Maybe it’s better to say that it’s a network of rabbit holes all connected to a Wonderland of wakefulness, an upside-down dream world that invites us to throw...
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God’s Glory and Ours: LectioCast for Proper 24
This week’s LectioCast is live. Tune in for some conversation around some of the most important verses in Mark’s Gospel: James and John’s request for glory and Jesus’ response. Walk with us through...
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Mind = Blown
The new LectioCast is up! This is the week when things that were askew are set to rights, and God gets celebrated for it. We even manage to tell a couple stories about living a God-infused life in an...
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