Following Jesus in rejecting empire
I was sick last week. It was that cold thing going around. I can’t remember the last time I took off two sick days in a row because of a cold. Usually I’m that guy who comes to work and infects everyone else (sorry, I’ll try to be better about that). It occurred to me…
12th Century Trinity Fresco on Chapel Ceiling, Urschalling, Upper Bavaria Is. 66:12-13 For this is what the Lord says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees. As a mother comforts her child, so will I…
The Bible mentions worship 254 times in the New International version. It mentions worship 347 times. But the word eat appears 623 times. I love food. I love the look of it, and I love the smell of it. I love the feel of food inside my mouth: The sensation as my molars press down…
I have tinnitus – ringing of the ears. I usually am not aware of the high-pitched hum at the upper end of the audible range until all is quiet. Like when I am lie down for the night, or am by myself in the snow-covered woods, far from the noise of our frenetic life. Snow…
Belief and action. In Revelation, we see these two concepts held up side by side. Christ says to several of the churches in the opening chapters of the book, “I know your deeds,” while chiding or commending others because of their beliefs.