“I Know” and Blindness
Jesus warned – because we “know” we are blind. Interesting stuff especially given our immersion in a culture where knowledge is critical. What then is Jesus really saying? He is warning us I believe in...
View Article“Cheap Grace is the Grace We Bestow on Ourselves”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer penned the words, “Cheap Grace is the Grace We Bestow on Ourselves.” Bonhoeffer spoke movingly of the danger of “cheap grace” as opposed to the real grace modeled in Jesus. It is...
View ArticleHurricane Homework
We may just be sitting for awhile without electricity, so here is your homework. Use it if you’d like. This Sunday may actually be a true sabbath – a day of rest, a day of making sacred, a day...
View ArticleWhat can you learn in 20 minutes?
Returned this weekend to our old “home” – the Pocono Mountains. We spent our first years as a couple and family here – teaching at Pocono Mountain High School. It was the birthplace of friends and...
View ArticleWhen you figure out what is important, you will realize you have just time to...
We awaken at different times. In this denomination, the “Second Coming” we hold to be deeply personal – a “Second Coming” that is not a physical return of Christ but in a rebirth of God into our...
View ArticleTaking Mannequins Out of Windows: The Battle of Rules Vs. Grace
A recent article in the New York Times spoke of the “Modesty Squads” in certain Hasidic neighborhoods in NYC who have taken a form of vigilante justice on themselves in order to establish what they...
View ArticleGrace For The Season We Are In
Thinking much about Peace. How do we discover, uncover, live in Peace? I love the idea in the midst of broken lives somehow we can find “the grace of the season we are in.” That peace is discovering...
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