The Coming One, Mary’s child, may not resolve all our problems, but God’s coming is an image of hope that may empower us to action. Hope encourages agency, not passivity. It opens the future, not determined, but influenced by what we do today. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingaholyadventure/2021/12/the-adventurous-lectionary-fourth-sunday-of-advent-december-19-2021/ Read the whole post at Bruce Epperly’s The Adventurous Lectionary. The…
If your spiritual life needs nourishment, so does your intellectual life. The plain truth of the matter is that God created us as rational beings. Anti-intellectualism is therefore a serious threat to balanced Christianity. “It is fundamental with us,” wrote John Wesley, “that to renounce reason is to renounce religion, that religion and reason go…
Energion author David Alan Black reports he has signed this statement written by some leaders in the Asian Christian community. Here is Dave’s note from his blog: (Wednesday, May 20, 2020) 11:22 AM I’ve signed this statement, along with David Dockery, Don Carson, Jim Wallis, Shane Claiborne, Darrel Bock, Ed Stetzer, and 10,000 others. Let’s take a…
By Jody Neufeld, editor for Energion Publications and author of Daily Devotions of Ordinary People – Extraordinary God and Grief: Finding the Candle of Light. What would my life be like if I had not been born a Christian? I would never have tasted a piece of bacon if I had been born in a Jewish family! And…
Thomas chose to share his testimony on his own blog. Read One Thing that Really Changed My Life. Our featured image today is the cover for Thomas’s most recent book, Those Footnotes in Your New Testament.
We will be collecting posts from our authors today, and Tuesday related to the Martin Luther King holiday here in the United States. If you write one or see one that I have missed, please let me know. The link on the title will be to the article wherever it appeared (we’ll embed tweets or…
As usual, our authors are doing some serious posting on Good Friday. Here are some samples that I noticed: David Alan Black: Calling forth an Ardent Yearning Robert D. Cornwall: It Is Finished: A Word for Good Friday Drew Smith: A Good Friday Reflection: Jesus’ Cry from the Cross: Abandonment and Hope
In the United States, today is a holiday commemorating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King. I invite us all to pause today and think about how we can fulfil the call of Amos 5:24 — But let justice roll down like waters,and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. And once we have paused and thought,…
Author David Croteau, Tithing After the Cross. shares his view recently on Today’s Christian Woman, How Much Should I Tithe? Dr Croteau is joined with Ruth Soukup and Dave Ramsey. And on January 17 @ 8a.m., Dr Croteau will be on the Moody Radio’s Up for Debate program, Are Christians Obligated to Tithe?, with Dr Ken Hemphill and Julie Roys. Just…
Author Robert Cornwall offers a good insight into the puzzling concept of The Trinity on his blog, Ponderings on a Faith Journey. Today’s “pondering” is “Reinvisioning Trinitarian Language” and gives the reader some words to chew in mind and spirit. The problem is that when we look at God as Trinity through the eyes of reason…
