Note: This is a re-framing and reimagining of the post I took down earlier this morning. It’s the same idea (the importance of communicating good news) but the focus the first time around was too negative and – in consequence – at odds with my central thesis. My apologies if you stumbled across the earlier…
our calling is not so much to be right as it is to be faithful
Read more Our Official “Christmas Portrait” – Rebekah and Derek
are you thirsty for some fresh air?
And what is our mission, as followers of the Living Way? It is to shine with integrity, to hold out the word of life in an offering of promise, and to invite people to Bethlehem, to meet the Christ, and to know what it is to be loved without reservation, or prejudice, or restriction.
This earth is a wild and marvelous place, a biosphere that we cannot control. However, God still charged humankind with the responsibility to manage it lovingly, carefully, and respectfully.
Summer may be over, and the fall colors may still be a few weeks away, but this is still a beautiful time of the year here in Wake Forest. Somehow, despite the constrictions of time and my limitations as a gardener, stuff keeps growing, and the woods and plantings around our home own an indomitable…
Jesus set into motion the possibility for humanity to move beyond the soul-crushing limitations of egocentricity and self-interest,
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. – Philippians…
Do all things without murmuring and arguing, so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world. It is by your holding fast to the word of life that I can boast on the…
Read more “shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the world of life…”
In the aftermath of Paris there is a lot of talk about human behavior, and I'm concerned that many of these terms seem to represent moving targets, and that the way we respond to horrific events often only serves to muddy the waters, and what we really mean when we say "right," and "wrong" is often more rooted in self interest than it is something universal, or true.
