Blog, Drawn In, Episode 1
Creativity does not seem to be a human generated power. Ask any artist, any creative programmer or athlete as to where their creativity comes from, and they start to sound a lot like a theologian… Creativity is the secular word for what Christians call the Holy...
Blog, BLOG BUSY Episode 4
Most books on prayer bore the shit out of me. Most people, it seems in my rather limited sample, who write on prayer tend to see prayer as a way to be quiet, move away from the noise of life; prayer is seen as some kind of intra-personal communication with God that...
Blog, BLOG Busy, BLOG BUSY Episode 3
How to connect, or re-connect, to God? For most of its history, Christianity has offered two main ways to connect to God: the Word and the Sacraments. The Word has two main meanings: In the first and primary instance it is Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of God. So, for...
Blog, Blog PI 6, Blog Prophetically Incorrect
“I (the LORD GOD) will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine; and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.” Amos. 9.14 As we conclude our...
Blog, Blog PI 5, Blog Prophetically Incorrect
“Seek me and live; but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over into Beersheba…” Amos 5.5 If we knew that Bethel and Gilgal were important sanctuaries to seek God, the verse this week from Amos is a head-scratcher. God wants us...
Blog, Blog PI 4, Blog Prophetically Incorrect
“Then the LORD said, ‘See, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I (the LORD) will never again pass them by…I (the LORD) will rise against the house of Jeroboam'” Amos 7. 8-9 What does it mean to be a person of “good...
Blog, Blog PI 3, Blog Prophetically Incorrect
“But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream.” Amos 5.24 Amos climaxes his argument here in chapter 5. The point of having God is not so that you can do religious things, but rather so you can treat your neighbor,...
Blog, Blog PI 2, Blog Prophetically Incorrect
“You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.” Amos 3,2 Oh boy. OOOOOOOOOH boy. OOOOOOOOOOOOH bOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOy! It’s getting a bit uncomfortable now. You ever wondered if there is a...
Blog, Blog PI 1, Blog Prophetically Incorrect
…”they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.” Amos 2.6 Over the course of any week, I meet a few people who know about the Bible, about Christianity, and are genuinely interested in working on their relationship with the...
Blog, Blog On Earth, Blog On Earth 6
“So God created humankind in God’s image, in the image of God, God created them.” Genesis 1.27 What’s tricky about this verse of scripture is the word “image.” What does it mean? How can we understand that word to make sense of who...
