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BLOG 10/23/18: WHAT, INDEED, IS THE WORLD THAT GOD SO LOVED? There are probably few verses in the Bible quoted more frequently than John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, …”  That … Continue reading →

BLOG 10/19/18. “WHEREVER I AM, I AM THE GLORY OF GOD” A dear friend for nearly fifty years, and one of my great civil rights heroes, is John Perkins. John is very unique in that, on one hand, he is … Continue reading →

BLOG 10/16/18. DYNAMIC CHURCHES, AND OF VIBRANT FAITH, … CAN (AND DO) STAGNATE From the very beginning of its history, the church of Jesus Christ has always been engaged in a struggle to maintain its integrity, it has been warned … Continue reading →

BLOG 10/13/18. A HOLY NATION WITHIN A (NOT-SO-HOLY) NATION Being “aliens and exiles” is nothing new to the people of God, … but it can get confusing if one is in any illusion about its context. It gets more confusing … Continue reading →

BLOG 10/3/10. I OWE MY READERS AN EXPLANATION I owe my readers and subscribers an explanation for my silence for these past weeks. Here’s what’s going on: I’m trying to be a good steward of the nonagenarian days of my … Continue reading →

BLOG 9/21/18. SO, WHAT’S NEW? THERE’S ALWAYS BEEN TRIBULATION It all seems so bewildering: disrupting and devastating floods on the east coast and forest fires on the west coast, typhoons in the Philippines and China, chaos in our political arena, … Continue reading →

BLOG 9/18/18. THE ENIGMA / LIABILITY OF OUR CELLPHONE CULTURE Let me run a thought by you. I am looking at two inescapable present cultural forces, and struggling to know how to relate them in my comprehension of the realities … Continue reading →

BLOG 9/14/16. CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP AND ECONOMICS With all the confusing stuff in our present scene about religion, definitions of the term ‘evangelical,’ scandals in the church, etc. … it might be a good time to stop and take a look … Continue reading →

BLOG 9/11/18. “I KNOW THAT I AM NOT ALONE” Loneliness is a very real issue for so many people, and always has been. There was the book a few years ago: Alone in the Crowd, or another Bowling Alone. I … Continue reading →

BLOG 9/7/18. THE CHURCH: CALLED TO BE SENT I had to chuckle. The responses to my last blog on the (caricatured) conceptions of the church as either composed of settlers or pioneers, were quite revealing of the fuzzy understandings that … Continue reading →