“Jesus, however, shifts us completely beyond this level of morality and says to us: If in all seriousness you consider how often you have offended God and how he has forgiven you again and again; if you take seriously the literal fact that every morning and every night you can say, ‘Forgive us our debts,’… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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While I am not advocating every Christian abandon their rural and suburban neighbourhoods, I believe for communities to be missional they must consider intentionally rooting their lives in specific communities as an essential expression of their missional commitment. One cannot be missional without prayerfully considering their location, not letting it be incidental to the incarnational… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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May all of your expectations be frustrated, May all of your plans be thwarted, May all of your desires be withered into nothingness, That you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child And can sing and dance in the love of God, Who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Benediction by Brennan… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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Not too long ago, those of us at the Simple Way were about to speak to a congregation. The person doing the introduction said, “These folks are a voice for the voiceless.” And something inside me hurt. I gently corrected them. Everyone has a voice. I know many amazing people who have used the old… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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“They send you, by yourself? Where are your lights? Where are your trucks? Your cameras?” he demanded. “You can tell your supervisor that I was displeased! Displeased with you coming out here with a little digital camera–a little digital camera–for this! Where are your trucks?” Martin, a retired school-district worker, assumed a look of disgust.… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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His [Micah’s] word is hesed, which translations often represent by “steadfast love.” NRSV has “kindness,” which is a bit wishy-washy. The word is actually close to the Greek agape. I think the nearest English word is commitment. There are two circumstances in which you show hesed in the OT. One is when there is no… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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“But does it mean that everything—everything—that is in us can go on to the mountains?” “Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death.” From C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
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[J]ustice is not necessarily “getting what you deserve.†This idea has crept perversely into our readings of Scripture, but it is Greco-Roman rather than biblical in origin. Get-what-you-deserve justice includes two things: a goal of orderly equilibrium where everyone is in the place they deserve, and a strategy of maintaining balance by responding in kind.… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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Many often say the reason for this issue [Women in Ministry] today is because some are trying to be “biblicalâ€. But that raises this question: Why pick this biblical issue and not some other? Like the poor (more are awaking on this one I’m happy to say) or the reality of miracles or tongue-speaking (clearly… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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“No single human being can pray the psalms of lamentation out of his or her experience. Spread out before us here is the anguish of the entire Christian community throughout all time, as Jesus Christ alone has wholly experienced it… God’s ways are too difficult to grasp. But even in the deepest hopelessness, God alone… Continue reading Quotation of the Week