Gospel
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Keep Dreaming
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6 min read
It seemed like a bad dream. A little over a month ago, I was checking my e-mail and I came across a strange alert: Glenn Beck was co-opting MLK. Not sure what this meant, I took a look at a response that was written for Sojournors by Ruth Hawley-Lowry that stirred in me a righteous…
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The Fool
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3 min read
“You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you.” This week’s gospel in the RCL is Luke 12:13-21. It deals with Jesus preaching to this crowd of thousands and he is describing how radical the Kingdom of GOD looks compared with the world we live in. It is a pretty profound message…
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Section 1: Questing—Seeking and Finding
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5 min read
This is the first of a three-part series covering David Rudel’s Who Really Goes To Hell?—The Gospel You’ve Never Heard. Rudel looks at how Scripture (The Bible) and our understanding of GOD’s purpose and of Jesus (The Gospel) intersect and where they diverge. My introduction can be found here. We often take it as a…
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The Gospel You’ve Never Heard
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2 min read
I’ve just started reading Who Really Goes to Hell–The Gospel You’ve Never Heard: What a Protestant Bible written by Jews says about God’s work through Christ by David I. Rudel. An intriguing title in itself but the caption underneath it made me all the more interested: “(A book for those in the church and those…
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Sunday
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6 min read
Part Three. Here are parts one and two. Over the last few days I’ve been reflecting on the nature of sin and humanity; GOD and Jesus; death and loss and what comes next. And the reality is that Sunday is the one day we feel ready to deal with. We read the Passion only so…
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Saturday
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4 min read
I played around with the idea of leaving a blank post. Get it? Absence…I decided that doing that would be perhaps a little too cryptic/existentialist. Yesterday we dealt with one of the problems of Good Friday, the day God died. The day we remember the tragedy and triumph of Jesus’s death by crucifixion. This happens…