Chapter One: Let Me Tell You a Story
Chapter Two: The Story from Above
Chapter Three: The Story from Below
Chapter Four: Jesus–The Center of the Story
19 For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, 20 and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth [...]
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Thanks again for all the helpful feedback on these chapters. Here’s the next one.
Chapter One: Let Me Tell You a Story
Chapter Two: The Story from Above
Chapter Three: The Story from Below
In the Ancient Near East–the time and place out of which much of the Bible was written–kings often erected statues of themselves in far flung [...]
How is this for an opening line to a sermon on “Blessed are the meek for they will inherit the earth”?
What I’m about to say today makes absolutely no sense and may end up being of no practical value whatsoever, but since what I’m about to say is based on something Jesus said, I think [...]
Before you look at chapter 2, let me take this opportunity to say that I haven’t dropped any footnotes in this manuscript and I don’t think it would be a good idea to put a bunch of them in the finished product, but I do see including a “for further reading/study” list at the back. [...]
Thanks to everyone for their feedback on my question about a project I’ve been working on.
Your comments have been encouraging. I’m going start putting some chapters online for more feedback. Here is what I’m thinking: this manuscript is intended to be a resource that can be used broadly by many different kinds of churches within [...]
We’re currently working through the Sermon on the Mount at Garnett. Here is what I said this morning:
A crowd has gathered to hear him teach.
Their eyes are swollen. Their cheeks red. Their grief has left them exhausted. They’re all there, waiting for him to speak. Everyone who has ever suffered a heartbreaking loss or backbreaking [...]
Help me out here. I’m doing a bit of market research.
I’ve been working on a manuscript for a little book that could serve as a resource for churches that want to give newcomers/seekers something that explains a “bigger” gospel than has usually been presented in such literature. By “bigger” I mean an explanation of the [...]
I’ve got a new article up at Wineskins. It explores the political implications of the ascension of Jesus. Check it out and come back here and comment if you want to discuss further.
Check out this great piece about the bruising and bloody world of the PTA. Greg Taylor thinks its satire. I’m not so sure.
In The Reason for God, Tim Keller tells about how Flannery O’Connor was once asked to put the meaning of one of her stories “in a nutshell.” She responded that, if she could have put the meaning into a nutshell, she wouldn’t have had to write the story.
I love it.
How many times do we feel [...]
Thanks again for all the helpful feedback on these chapters. Here’s the next one.
Chapter One: Let Me Tell You a Story
Chapter Two: The Story from Above
Chapter Three: The Story from Below
In the Ancient Near East–the time and place out of which much of the Bible was written–kings often erected statues of themselves in far flung [...]
How is this for an opening line to a sermon on “Blessed are the meek for they will inherit the earth”?
What I’m about to say today makes absolutely no sense and may end up being of no practical value whatsoever, but since what I’m about to say is based on something Jesus said, I think [...]
Before you look at chapter 2, let me take this opportunity to say that I haven’t dropped any footnotes in this manuscript and I don’t think it would be a good idea to put a bunch of them in the finished product, but I do see including a “for further reading/study” list at the back. [...]
Thanks to everyone for their feedback on my question about a project I’ve been working on.
Your comments have been encouraging. I’m going start putting some chapters online for more feedback. Here is what I’m thinking: this manuscript is intended to be a resource that can be used broadly by many different kinds of churches within [...]
We’re currently working through the Sermon on the Mount at Garnett. Here is what I said this morning:
A crowd has gathered to hear him teach.
Their eyes are swollen. Their cheeks red. Their grief has left them exhausted. They’re all there, waiting for him to speak. Everyone who has ever suffered a heartbreaking loss or backbreaking [...]
Help me out here. I’m doing a bit of market research.
I’ve been working on a manuscript for a little book that could serve as a resource for churches that want to give newcomers/seekers something that explains a “bigger” gospel than has usually been presented in such literature. By “bigger” I mean an explanation of the [...]
I’ve got a new article up at Wineskins. It explores the political implications of the ascension of Jesus. Check it out and come back here and comment if you want to discuss further.
Check out this great piece about the bruising and bloody world of the PTA. Greg Taylor thinks its satire. I’m not so sure.
In The Reason for God, Tim Keller tells about how Flannery O’Connor was once asked to put the meaning of one of her stories “in a nutshell.” She responded that, if she could have put the meaning into a nutshell, she wouldn’t have had to write the story.
I love it.
How many times do we feel [...]
