When my pastor asked the congregation to join him in a prolonged fast, I was tempted to decline. Grace and freedom, you know—the stuff of spiritual “maturity.” God will tell me when to fast, thank you.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
My Sermon on the Mount: A Paraphrase
Feel free to sit here and listen while I preach to myself.
Matthew 5:1-16 (This is not meant to be an exhaustive commentary, just some scribblings and ponderings.):
Blessed are those who know they have much more to learn than they have to teach, and who are more eager to listen than to speak. The Kingdom of Heaven belongs to the humble and the hungry.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Coming out of My Funk
I've been in a bit of a funk. It was over silly stuff - people who don't read and/or google. People who don't come to visit me (which was everyone, I was convinced. They think I live a thousand miles out on the tundra, when in fact I live exactly five minutes from town, if I'm the one who's driving. Eight if it's Dave.) Of course I was ignoring the other reasons why I think "no one comes to visit:"
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