As this Thanksgiving Weekend winds down, here are ten grounds for thankfulness: The environment of grace–from the Triune God–that surrounds me, preceding, succeeding, super-ceding, meta-ceding (not a real word, but I think it communicates), grace that awakens, convicts, converts, corrects, transforms, heals, overcomes again and again and again. A baby boy to be born next …
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WHO SHOULD WE BAIL OUT?
I write in the midst of the worst economic crisis in anyone’s recent memory. Greed, carelessness, incompetence and other things have forced the government to consider, and us to accept, a mind-blowing IOU from the U.S. tax-payers to bail out various and sundry financial enterprises, and in time the US economic enterprise as a whole. …
SOME PROPHETIC QUESTIONS THE CHURCH SHOULD BE ASKING
Most people who claim to be church would agree that in some sense God calls the church to a prophetic role in the world, and especially the part of the world that is their context for ministry. Prophets stand up and say, “Thus says the Lord.” By which they mean, among other things, “Here is …
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