Monthly Archives: April 2018

BLOG 4/27/18: IT’S INTERESTING HOW JESUS DEFINES TRUE DISCIPLESHIP? What with all of the assertions about, and definitions of, those who profess to be followers of Jesus Christ, it is worth taking a step back and looking at how Jesus … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/24/18. HOW DOES ONE ENGAGE AGEING WITH HOPE AND JOY? A couple of months ago, when I was spoke in this blog about my impending 90th birthday, I got back some interesting comments asking if it got any easier … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/20/18. PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS … ARE FOR REAL Reading Cory Booker’s (junior senator from New Jersey) fascinating recent book United is a graphic reminder that the Biblical teaching about the sinister and subtle and subverting presence of principalities and … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/17/18. “BY THIS TIME YOU OUGHT TO BE TEACHERS OF OTHERS” OK, let’s get this on the table right up front: Christ’s followers are called to be contagious with the reality of God’s New Creation, which he came to … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/13/18. YOUR LIFE IRRELEVANT TO HISTORY? SAY WHAT? My last blog precipitated some response that requires a follow-up. I quoted a missions professor whose statement was: “If you can’t relate your life to Christ’s Great Commission, then your life … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/10/18. “IF YOU CAN’T RELATE YOUR LIFE TO THE GREAT COMMISSION, THEN YOUR LIFE IS IRRELEVANT TO HISTORY” Doesn’t that sound like an outrageously extreme proposition? It’s worth chewing on. It comes, as I recall, in something similar to … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/6/18. THE ENIGMA OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY It inevitably comes up in conversation, once that conversation turns to politics, and that is how so many ostensible Christian persons can be so dedicated to a person whose whole demeanor contradicts … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/3/18. WHAT FOLLOWS EASTER? HOPE AND PERSECUTION! It is worth a brief reminder, that historically what followed that first Easter was something like four centuries of persecution … and what made that persecution endurable was the incredible hope that … Continue reading →