It’s difficult to see something with new eyes or get new understanding when our memories abound with old movie images and Sunday School bible stories. Who can forget Yul Brynner’s angry, jealous, heart-hardened Pharaoh who would not let Mose’s people go? Romans 9:17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this [...]
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Raised for a Purpose
Posted in Lent, tagged change agent, choice, evil, Israel, koinonia, love, Moses, Paul, pharaoh, power, purpose, Rameses, Romans, turning point, way of Christ, way of Jesus on February 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
God’s Mercy
Posted in Lent, tagged creation, Father, gifts, God, God's will, Grace, hope, justice, mercy, Moses, Paul, presence, Romans, sin, soul, Spirit, turning point on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mercy is the best thing ever, particularly when we’re on the receiving end. But, it gets a little dicey when we see some other “undeserving” soul get the good stuff. Romans 9:14-15 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I [...]
A Lament
Posted in Lent, tagged change, conversion, faith, hope, lament, loss, love, mercy, Messiah, Paul, prophecy, Romans, truth, way of Christ, way of Jesus on February 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I think of Paul as a punctilious kind of teacher, quite linearly-minded, regimented, and formal. But then, he surprises me with this verbal requiem over a particular loss he feels in traveling the “new way” in Christ: losing the people and all that was familiar to him to “boldly go” and explore this “strange new [...]
Cycle of Love
Posted in Lent, tagged faith, freedom, God, Holy Spirit, love, paradox, Paul, Romans, sanctification, trust, way of Jesus on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In my daily work, I think of myself as a broker of information. I am often the connection between what is “out there” and the people who need it. God’s love is the same way. We are brokers of love. . . or not. Romans 8:39b ” . . . nor anything else in all [...]
Jesus: My Access Point
Posted in Lent, tagged access, condemnation, Kingdom of God, love, mercy, Paul, prayer, Romans, sin, sinner, way of Jesus on February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I had fun today thinking about the kingdom of God like the Internet cloud and Jesus as the best access point ever, no downtime. Access is always there but I’m not always connected. Romans 8:34 Who is there to condemn [us]? Will Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who died, or rather Who was raised from the [...]
Predestination Quandaries
Posted in Lent, tagged adoption, Armenianism, Calvinism, faith, Jesus, John Wesley, law, Methodism, predestination, truth, way of Christ on February 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Back in the 80′s, I had several friends who were hardcore Calvinists and quite Reformed but they also attended the same “not-very-mainstream” charismatic Methodist church at the time. Somehow, even though Calvinism is counter to the Methodist Book of Discipline (doctrine), we all got along, more or less. Romans 8:29 For those God foreknew he [...]
A Groaning Spirit
Posted in Lent, tagged condemnation, God's voice, Jesus, prayer, Spirit, way of Christ, yoke on February 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes, I don’t know how to pray, not for myself or for anyone else. But there is this promise that the Spirit within knows exactly how to intercede. That is a great comfort to me. Romans 8:26b . . . We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes [...]
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