Jesus as The Way

 ”Jesus as the truth gets far more attention than Jesus as the way.” – Eugene Peterson
We cannot skip the way of Jesus in our hurry to get the truth of Jesus as he is worshiped and proclaimed. The way of Jesus is the way that we practice and come to understand the truth of Jesus, [...]

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Inertia

I read recently (in what book I can’t remember, and I haven’t found it again yet) a phrase that really struck me. It was the “inertia of disobedience.” Wow, is that ever true!
When we begin to disobey it takes on an inertia all of its own that results in us being a lot [...]

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Conversion to a New Culture

For some years I have been saying to anyone who will listen that the Bible, and specifically the Torah, is a cultural manual for God’s people. If Christianity is inherently communal (and it is), then Scripture provides the outline for the culture that is to form and to characterize Christian communities.
It is encouraging, therefore, [...]

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My Sentiments Exactly

Close your eyes, friend, and imagine. You’re high up in the air, in an aisle seat, looking past your neighbor and out the window. Down below you is a mass of cloud cover looking like fresh snow, marbled, marked with divots and craggy monuments of white. Imagine that your understanding of reality is defined by [...]

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Culture

I want to energize cultural shift; I want to invigorate soul healing; I want to ooze the Gospel. I am stymied in this desire by a cultural misperception of what the Gospel is designed to permeate. I believe that the Gospel does exactly that – permeates – leaves no stone unturned, penetrates to our core [...]

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WWJD

In recent days I have been talking often about the human propensity to ride a pendulum and a related issue that is actually what I want to comment on today.
I often find myself in the position of discussing a truth that has been widely accepted.  It is so easy to be understood as attacking that [...]

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