Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! I frequently remind us that the phrase we read in John as “eternal life” is a misnomer for the modern mind. The phrase, mixed with the evolution of theological concepts like postmillennial dispensationalism leads us to assume it has to be about Heaven, the …
discipleship
A Word: No Easy Faith
Jesus offers Nicodemus a new way of seeing the world and a new life. Our attempts to make new life easy strip it of its true substance. Jesus’s gospel of redemptionLent 4B | John 3:14-21 This morning, we read from the gospel of John. Chapter 3, verses 14 through 21. And this …
Faithfulness
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! Perhaps the most common conversation in Lent is about discipline. About what we choose to give up or take on. How we are marking the time and what personal rules we are setting for ourselves. And because this is the most common conversation, I try to make other …