Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 5: Deliver Us From Evil
Temptation is an old theme in scripture. It is also the place where the story often starts. Right after humanity is created, the first humans are tempted in the Garden. Right after Jesus is baptized, he is driven into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit to be tempted...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 5: Deliver Us From Evil
Does God tempt us? That’s a question Christians have wrestled with for 2,000 years, and Jews for even longer. Do you really think I’m going to settle it in this blog post? Some dismiss the question out-of-hand, as if even asking if God ever tempts us...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 5: Deliver Us From Evil
I loved the 80s. Pretty much everything appealed to me. The clothes. The hair. The music. It was great to be young and single, then young and married pre-child. I graduated high school in 1980, college in 1985 and by the end of the decade I was doing the work I...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 5: Deliver Us From Evil
This week’s portion of the Lord’s Prayer asks “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” For a long time, my mental picture of “Lead us not into temptation” was someone about to enter a dark, seedy, Bar-of-Iniquity....
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 4: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
If you tried to watch or participate in this evening’s Darkwood Brew episode, please accept our apologies. We had what could only be described at present as a catastrophic failure of our internet connection to the server which streams Darkwood Brew. Our tech...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 4: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
“We are given to God to put our faith therein, but to be forgiven, we must first believe in sin.” – Jewel Kilcher Believing in God is relatively easy, especially if that god turns out to be a creation of your own imagination, or indeed turns out to...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 4: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
It’s Saturday, so are you ready for some Greek? Once again, Matthew and Luke have differing ideas about how to present the issue. I would translate Matthew “and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors” and Luke “and forgive us our sins...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 4: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
From Scott. In an airport. Again. Like Eric, I’m still processing the great experience we had at Wild Goose. Unlike Eric, my bicycle didn’t get stolen. I took a ride across the Missouri River yesterday to see how the flood waters have risen. Have a...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 4: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
The day after arriving home from the Wild Goose Festival with the Darkwood Brew team, my mountain bike was stolen. It disappeared from outside a Vietnamese restaurant in Omaha where I was eating lunch with Darkwood Brew producer, Scott Griessel and Brew’s...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 4: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About a month ago, I came across an NPR story about a woman named Mary Johnson whose only son was shot and killed by Oshea Israel, a teen involved with...
