Recent faith

• The Akedah - Kierkegaard and Protecting God

  Note:  If you haven’t already done so, you may want to read the first post in this series:
  The Akedah - The Binding of Isaac
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  Over the next few days, I will post some further reflections of mine and of others on the story of Isaac’s binding, otherwise known as the Akedah.  Perhaps the most famous of [...]

  June 23rd, 2008

• The Akedah - The Binding of Isaac

  Every three years these verse come up in the lectionary, and every time they do, I am feel drawn to them.  The power of this passage cannot be denied, and I am sure that it has occupied and troubled the minds of those who heard it ever since it was first told around campfires at [...]

  June 22nd, 2008

• How We Are Saved: A Quote from Reinhold Niebuhr

  I ran across this great quote recently and thought I would post it.

  Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,Therefore, we are saved by hope.Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;Therefore, we are saved by faith.Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.Therefore, we are saved [...]

  June 5th, 2008

• Yes, I Am Guilty of Pastoral Malpractice . . .

  at least as it is defined in an article posted on the LifeWay website.  Here we read the following, written by Thom S. Rainer:

  I would consider pastoral malpractice among the greatest treasons a minister can commit against the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, it is practiced weekly without inhibition.
  What do I mean by pastoral malpractice? [...]

  May 12th, 2008

• The Mind of Christ

  Have the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
  Who, being in nature (the form of) God,
  did not consider equality with God
  as something to be held fast (exploited, grasped)
  but emptied himself,
  taking on the nature (form) of a slave,
  being born in human likeness.
  And being found in human form,
  he abased (humbled) himself
  and became obedient to [...]

  May 12th, 2008