N.T. Wright writes faster than I can read. Having relished a few of his other works, I sat down with his new How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels, (HarperOne, 2012). I’m not finished and I’ve been trying
N.T. Wright writes faster than I can read. Having relished a few of his other works, I sat down with his new How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels, (HarperOne, 2012). I’m not finished and I’ve been trying
I’ve been talking to people lately about a roadblock that I think I see in spiritual growth. It looks like a two-step process: (1) “get” (understand) the principle and then (2) “apply” it, which means to incorporate it into our,
Today, on the penultimate day of the Civil Rights Pilgrimage, we spent some time in the Archives at the University of Mississippi library. We’re here in Oxford because of the James Meredith story. He was the first African American to
Easter Monday. The second day of the New Creation. Because I am again serving as pastor to two small congregations, I preached yesterday. I followed the lectionary and used Mark 16:1-8 as the Gospel text. Perhaps because of
A couple of times recently, I’ve listened to “what the Bible says” conversations that have left me scratching my head. Today’s Sunday School lesson (written by a well-known author/pastor) dealt with personal affliction and God’s glory and used an excerpt