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Continue reading →: The Minecraft Gospel: Respawned in Creative ModeGamers may find this one amusing. My kids are huge fans of Minecraft, a game which, for the uninitiated, allows you to craft massive worlds in digital Lego fashion. Well, on the weekend, we were doing some world building together and found ourselves talking about Jesus and the resurrection in…
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Continue reading →: The Incomplete Gospel: A Reflection on Mark 16I love the incompleteness of the Gospel of Mark. It ends without ending: “Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.” (Mark 16:8) It invites us to ask, “But if they said nothing to anyone, how come we’ve…
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Continue reading →: Before words, what was the Word?“Yes, Jesus is the language. He is the Word, and yet his language has no words; there is no need for words. If this can indeed be said, then it’s the language of silence. Silence is the password that gains entrance to the holy place wherein we worship God in…
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Continue reading →: Who was the author of Deuteronomy?The authorship of Deuteronomy may traditionally be attributed to Moses, but it is self evident that Moses wasn’t responsible for its climax: “And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said. He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but…
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Continue reading →: Less is More“This is gospel-humility, blessed self-forgetfulness. Not thinking more of myself as in modern cultures, or less of myself as in traditional cultures. Simply thinking of myself less.” The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness (Timothy Keller)
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Continue reading →: Nothing and Everything“Eastern meditation emphasizes abandonment. Such meditation has total relinquishment as its aim. To the Asian mystics the highest stage of enlightenment is complete self-emptying. For Christians, however, emptying isn’t the end of the story; it’s just the beginning. Jesus emptied himself so he could be filled to overflowing.” Deep-Rooted in…
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Continue reading →: Anti-Semitic leader discovers he’s Jewish
Last week I was thinking, I need to teach my sons about irony. This week I found the perfect example: “As a rising star in Hungary’s far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments about Jews. He accused them of “buying up” the country, railed about the…
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Continue reading →: God’s ugliness and man’s beautyFor the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength … and the ugliness of God is more beautiful than human beauty.
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Continue reading →: Video of Hardin TripSome of you may be interested in this video from Michael and Lorri Hardin’s tour of Australia earlier this year. Michael is author of “The Jesus Driven Life: Reconnecting Humanity with Jesus”. The video features a number of anabaptist Christian gatherings from different cities in Australia including Peace Tree Community…
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Continue reading →: Below the Surface of our Self Awareness“Our knowledge of self is very small. The plummet of our selfconsciousness scarcely reaches below the surface, while God’s holy eye penetrates the waters of the soul to the very bottom. We are ignorant of much that takes place in the soul, and what we perceive of it often presents…
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