Month: October 2009
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Surprised by Hope
I just finished reading, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, by NT Wright. Wright is a New Testament theologian and currently serves as the Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. What I appreciate about his writing is his ability to “get into the shoes” of first…
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Think, Act, Befriend
“All meaningful knowledge is for the sake of action, and all meaningful action for the sake of friendship.” John Macmurray, The Self as Agent
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Pumpkin Carving ’09
As October comes to an end we have our annual Harvest Party. In preparation for the party we carve pumpkins a week before the event. The pumpkin designs are to match the Harvest Party theme. This year’s theme is Fairy Tales. The Big Bad Wolf
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History Night 2009
Anticipation builds each year as October approaches because our community gathers for our annual History Night. With a special meal, stories, pictures and sharing we remember God’s faithfulness through the years. This year we explored our how our mission as a community has developed. Community is not simply a novel calling, but a fulfillment of…
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Who Am I?
I’ve enjoyed reading Joel Green’s Body, Soul, and Human Life. While I can’t say I fully understand or agree with everything I’ve read, it has been very helpful in connecting the dots of several concepts, particularly, how we are to think about ourselves. Green makes the case that we shouldn’t see ourselves in a Cartesian…
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Where are you being formed?
“For 1 Peter, then, human life is life on the potter’s wheel, so to speak – being shaped one way or the other, by the ancestral ways expressed in taken-for-granted social conventions, or by the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit and the formative influence of the people of God. Humans act out of their…
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God’s Good – Scarcely Imagined
“Like those who live with life-long disease, humans easily adjust their lives to account for their maladies. The human family can scarcely imagine what the freedom to chose God’s ‘good’ would be, so much has humanity adapted itself to estrangement and alienation.” Joel B. Green, Body, Soul, and Human Life