Think of yourself, just as a seed patiently waiting in the earth; waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking. C.S. Lewis We are not yet finished. Nothing in the created order is yet finished. We are already in motion, but we are not […]
Coming Alive: Renewal, Revival, Awakening! Our July sermon series is all about life. New life. God’s life. Life in Christ. Life together with others who are a part of the new community Christ is creating called Living Word Community Church. We are called out of death to life. This life is a life of flourishing. […]
Read this wonderful explanation of what is included in salvation by John Wesley, the great revivalist and founder of the Methodist church: By salvation I mean, not barely deliverance from hell, or going to heaven, but a present deliverance from sin, a restoration of the soul to its primitive health, its original purity; a recovery of […]
The LORD. When the Bible talks about God the LORD, one of the constant descriptions is the mightiness of the Lord. The Lord is the Almighty. There is another wonderful word that describes our mighty, Almighty Lord. It is the word sovereign. Sovereign and Lord are synonyms. A sovereign is a lord and a lord […]
I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Albert Einstein Einstein was a brilliant physicist and mathematician, but one who did not make the jump to a secular scientism and a cold universe. While there are certainly hordes of such scientists today, it is not a foregone conclusion of […]
Great and marvelous are your deeds, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. Just and true are your ways, King of the Nations. Who will not fear you, Lord, and bring glory to your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed. Revelation 15:3-4 Read these […]
Here is a great insight from feisty, innovative, provocative, and always funny Anne Lamott. And it is on a spiritual theme that is of central importance for all of us. Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. Some of the best theology we do may be called […]
I am an avid reader. I think most of you who read this blog know that. And I enjoy good conversations with my many friends and colleagues who are avid readers as well. We will often refer to authors when we preach and teach. We know that these authors are not always so familiar to […]
It has been said that if you know how to read but choose not to, you are no better off than someone who is illiterate. I was not always someone who enjoyed reading. I was encouraged by my parents to read, I was forced to read for school assignments, and the mentors that I’ve had […]
Being “sustainable” is all the rage right now: sustainable food, sustainable fabric, sustainable energy, etc. You name it, someone’s trying to figure out how to make it sustainable. The irony is that never before in our culture have relationships been treated with such a throw-away mentality as they are now. So, is anyone talking about […]