Last evening we were moved to read of the plight of followers of Jesus who suffer and die at the hands of ISIS. This particular report came from a church official in country who plead for Christians everywhere to help them. As we have often read over the last year, people who bear the name …
Category Archives: Hope
A RESURRECTION—SO WHAT?
The Jesus story declares that the human story does not end with a death! To be sure, death looms largely within the story. Along the way we read of people dying, and as the story moves forward Jesus begins to make ominous predictions of his own death. The simple, sad, and undeniable fact of life …
Our God Delivers!
In Psalm 72 the worshiper extols the character and deeds of the Ideal King. Ideal to the extent the king reflects the priorities and promises of the Lord God in caring for people. At the center of it all is the power of God activated by the love of God on behalf of the people …
MLK and the FMC
One of the most shocking and shameful parts of our history as a church, in my view, is our non-participation (at best) in and our resistance (at worst) to the American Civil Rights Movement, embodied in the person of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (When I say “our” I mean especially the majority of folk in the church …
Jesus, I.S. and Terror
We’ve just celebrated the first Advent of our Lord, and in the New Year we wait for the Second Advent. The Heavy lifting has been done. The child born … finally said, “It is finished!” Then, on the third day he was not there but he was here, with us, still Immanuel. God with us, …