Happy Birthday Mom
We celebrated Mom's 70th birthday last night at Sapporos in Daytona Beach.
This guy is hilarious
We love you Mom!!
Thoughts from a recovering sinner, friend of Jesus, and beloved child of Abba.
We celebrated Mom's 70th birthday last night at Sapporos in Daytona Beach.
This guy is hilarious
We love you Mom!!
What's the old saying, "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance baffle them with bull..."
His style is easy and reads more like a blog post than a literary work. He does an excellent job of siting scripture and sources in his endnotes (he has 34 pages worth for this rather short read).
A church is not a center for religious goods and services, where people pay a fee and receive a product in return. A church is not an organization that surveys its demographic to find out what the market is demanding at this particular moment and then adjusts its strategy to meet that consumer niche.
The way of Jesus is the path of descent. It's about our death. It's our willingness to join the world in its suffering, it's our participation in the new humanity, it's our weakness calling out to others in their weakness.
To turn that into a product blasphemes the Eucharist.
The Eucharist is what happens when the question is asked, What does it look like for us to be a Eucharist for these people, here and now?
What does it look like for us to break ourselves open and pour ourselves out for the healing of these people in this time and place?