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Thursday, September 21st, 2006… People hate this kind of talk. Raw truth is never popular. But here it is, bluntly spoken: Because you run roughshod over the poor and take the bread right out of their mouths, You’re never going to move into the luxury homes you have built. You’re never going to drink wine from the expensive [...]
Does God want you to be rich?
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006A growing and influential cohort of preachers want people to think that. A convenient side benefit: the conditional blessings flow when they tithe more and make the preachers rich. Time magazine has a great cover story on the rise of the so-called “prosperity gospel” that should convict us all. Especially poignant was Rick Warren’s reflection: [...]
Is He your cornerstone/capstone/keystone?
Friday, September 1st, 2006Brian Meza rocked last night. My left coast friend from Living Hope Community Church in San Fernando preached at Abounding Grace from Ephesians 2:19-21: “Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus [...]
Theological thought of the day
Saturday, August 26th, 2006No sickly sweet, pie in the sky BS here: “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living†(Ps. 27:13).
Billy Graham: The Bible is open to interpretation
Thursday, August 10th, 2006On the mystery of our faith: While [Billy Graham] believes Scripture is the inspired, authoritative word of God, he does not read the Bible as though it were a collection of Associated Press bulletins straightforwardly reporting on events in the ancient Middle East. “I’m not a literalist in the sense that every single jot and [...]
Cub – His Hands and Feet
Saturday, August 5th, 2006A video tribute to Caleb Stevens, a little warrior who went home too soon.
God owes us nothing
Saturday, August 5th, 2006“I’ve come to some conclusions, though, over the course of this past year. God owes us nothing. Every single day is a gift. If it’s a good day, then it is a bonus. Even the ten years we had with Caleb – it was a gift. We didn’t have to have any years at all, [...]
Bario Shalom
Saturday, August 5th, 2006Peace + Love + Justice + Fiesta Latino churches have overnight found themselves surrounded by new middle-class ‘neighbors’ right in the barrio, while many of their members have been forced to move away from the communities where they have grown up all of their lives–because the can no longer afford to live there. The pastors [...]
Biblical Compassion: Suffering Together
Friday, August 4th, 2006… if we open up those Bibles the meaning of “compassion” becomes clear; after all, Hebrew and Greek words commonly translated as “compassion” are used over eighty times in the Bible. Their most frequent use is not as an isolated noun but as the culmination of a process. Repeatedly, in Judges and other books, the [...]
Kowtows and whores?
Monday, July 31st, 2006How do we as followers of Jesus relate to politics? Frankly, I’m embarrassed at the Church: I’m embarrassed how liberal mainliners kowtow to the Democrats, equating the US Constitution on rights and freedoms as somehow equivalent to the gospel. And I’m embarrassed with the Religious Right’s whorish behavior of aligning itself with the Republicans. Jesus [...]
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