Review: Recover Your Good Heart

Recover Your Good Heart
~by Jim Robbins
Living free from religious guilt and the shame of not good-enough
About fully understanding the new heart and its new nature with the desire and ability to do God’s will, and discipleship and spiritual growth as a process of internal transformation rather than external behavior modification.
At times I felt that book [...]

A Lesson in Synonyms

Postmodern does not equal relativist.
Modern does not equal christian.
Truth does not equal certainty.
Mystery does not equal doubt.
Inerrant does not equal exact.
Narrative does not equal fable.
Missional does not equal social gospel.
Inclusion does not equal pluralism.
Justice does not equal democrat.
Christian does not equal republican.
Your thoughts?

Sharing Good News

Sarah preaches a little here…
This is the business God is in – creating justice, making peace, bringing reconciliation, restoring broken or sick things. And He’s presently in that business, here on earth now. In the mess that is real life. There is tension between the kingdom here (within a fallen, imperfect world) and the kingdom [...]

Oversold

David Cowan, pastor of Elevation Church, wrote and produced a short film portraying the story of Hosea in modern times.

The story of Hosea and Gomer is a beautiful story of the extravagant love and grace of God. This film is a video sermon guided with narration through the acting of the story.
To find out [...]

Who’s Your Covering?

It has come to my attention, after a recent series of unfortunate events, that the cause of our problems could be a lack of covering.  Having removed ourselves from the umbrella of protection, we are now vulnerable to random attacks of misfortune.
In order to rectify this situation, we are going to consider possible candidates for [...]

Review: Salvation Boulevard

Last Friday, Salvation Boulevard arrived in the mail, sent to me for a religious point of view. Coincidentally, my internet server was down, my husband was out of town, the weather necessitated staying indoors, the kids were busy, and I had several guilt-free hours to enjoy this book.
Let me start by saying that it [...]

Another Night in the ER

Last night, shortly before turning in, I got the dreaded accident phone call. By the way, I am an under-reactor (married to an over-reactor). From what I could gather, my son was being checked over as a precaution because he hit his head in the accident. So somewhat calmly, except for the [...]

A Wake-Up Call – Part 2

The intent of my previous post is not to say that the people of God should be apolitical.  However, we must reject the Constantinian tendency to seek power and influence for the church through political involvement.
As believers our involvement in the public arena at any level, whether simply voting or seeking public office, is always [...]

A Wake-Up Call – Part 1

I have mostly been avoiding post-election conversations. I’ve read a few things that came across my screen including Dutch Sheet’s response.  There is one statement in his response I agree with:
“The complacency and lack of discernment concerning our real condition in America – especially by the Church – is both appalling and horrifying.”
I’ve been thinking [...]

Reality Check

I am convinced of one thing…
There is a realm called the kingdom of God, a present reality just beyond what we experience as reality.  Not just an imagination, but a reality more real than the touch-see-feel world we live in.
I long for the permanent, manifest reality of this kingdom.
There is a Celtic saying,
“Heaven and [...]