And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise…
Tag: peace
Facing Evil
Given last week’s events in Paris and, though less well-known, Beirut and Bagdad, I had to scrap plans for my sermon on Sunday. It was a good sermon, and we’ll talk about evangelism next Sunday, but events required a response. As it so happens, my current series was supposed to come to an end the…
Attacked
Note for NaNoWriMo readers For those who have been reading my NaNoWriMo posts, we will be continuing that journey tomorrow. Today I felt the need to reflect on the violence which has exploded into the world this week. I am grateful for all those who have been enjoying my imagination, please pause with me as…
Magnetic Wisdom
Shortly after I started at Central Baptist, we had a contemplative worship in the evenings called “CrossPoint.” It was a good season, and I learned much about worship by taking part in it’s organization. A number of people would like to see it return, maybe one day it will. The key to CrossPoint was an…
Just sitting (a Monday bonus post)
Yesterday afternoon was wonderful. The weather was beautiful, the Sun was out, and the family was all occupied. So, after I got home from worship and wound-down from the morning, I took a book and went out to the backyard swing to read. I read about a chapter or so, but kept nodding off 1….
War
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been watching “The War” by Ken Burns on Netflix. I guess Veteran’s day is as good a day as any to share some reflections on the nature of this documentary series. First, due to my Mennonite background, I lean heavily towards a pacifist expression of the Christian faith….
