Loving Lament
In a book on the "lost language of lament" Michael Card makes the following connection between really loving one another and lament.
Recent Sermons: An Elder’s Reflections
These past few sermons on the C/church have been extremely encouraging for me, and I hope for you as well. Perhaps most
On doing theology
"The dogmatic task is not simply to ascertain what the prophets and apostles said but to determine what we must say now
The Universal Appeal of Wisdom Literature
"One might read the Pentateuch and see only a faint shadow of himself reflected there. The historical books may overwhelm him with
“Not a tame lion…”
I have been reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to Ellyn lately. We just read the chapter where the children meet
Reading Review: Darwin’s Doubt
Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design by Stephen C. Meyer In a semi-technical yet
Psalmic poetry
Translating poetry from one language to another is tricky. So not surprisingly, translations of the Psalms often fail to capture wordplay.Psalm 51:12
The Royal Shepherd
The familiarity of Psalm 23 is probably the greatest impediment to us hearing the psalm afresh. Somehow the psalm came to be
Psalm 22 and Jesus
Psalm 22 is among the most recognizable psalms because of Jesus’s memorable use of its opening line during the crucifixion as recorded
Team Hope
Today’s sermon focuses on hope: what it is, and how we cultivate it. We tend to think of hope as a personal
