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Continue reading →: Just boycott itThe scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners…
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Continue reading →: Meditations on Ephesians 3:16-19This week I’ve been meditating on the practice of meditation again, and in the process I was drawn to Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, where he wrote: I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that…
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Continue reading →: The exodus according to MetallicaWith the Metallica concert only a few hours away, here’s an account of the exodus story, Metallica style. Slaves Hebrews born to serve, to the pharaoh Heed To his every word, live in fear Faith Of the unknown one, the deliverer Wait Something must be done, four hundred years So let…
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Continue reading →: Moses or Jesus?Sometimes, when comparing the New Testament with the Old Testament, it is said that the God of the Old Testament is about wrath and judgement but the God of the New Testament is one of grace and love. Personally I find this way too simplistic. Not that I don’t see…
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Continue reading →: Muslim Jesus, Christian JesusThis graphic comparison of Muslim and Christian understandings of Jesus is from “Understand My Muslim People” by Muslim author Dr. Abraham Sarker. It illustrates what we hold in common and where we differ. Not bad I think.
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Continue reading →: The gospel according to Black SabbathA word from the masters of metal: Have you ever thought about your soul – can it be saved? Or perhaps you think that when you’re dead you just stay in your grave Is God just a thought within your head or is he a part of you? Is Christ…
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Continue reading →: 5 verses where the Bible calls Jesus “God”Every now and then someone says to me, “But the Bible never explicitly calls Jesus God!” This is frequently followed by an assertion that Christian teaching on the divinity of Christ was all dreamed up by the Council of Nicaea many centuries after the Bible was written. That “Son of…
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Continue reading →: Is Xenophobia Ever Christlike?The theme of this month’s synchroblog is “CHRISTIANS AND THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE – As Congress debates how to handle illegal immigrants already within U.S. borders and how to more effectively handle hopeful immigrants in the future, Christians will need to consider what it means to love these new neighbors in…
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Continue reading →: If others aren’t committed, why should I be?I have a gripe today. I think I’ll call it co-dependant commitment. It’s where people bail on their commitments because others do. You know, lowest common denominator commitment. Where a group is only as committed as its least committed person. I think it stems from a subtle form of idolatry.…
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Continue reading →: Thomas Merton on Christian meditationThomas Merton on Christian meditation and awareness of God: Meditation is not merely the intellectual effort to master certain ideas about God or even to impress upon our minds the mysteries of our Christian faith. Conceptual knowledge of religious truth has a definite place in our life, and that place…
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