Category: Scripture Reflections
Threat or Freedom? – Two Ways of Reading the Gospel
Do you read the Gospel and Jesus’ statements through a lens of threat or a lens of freedom? How you do will make a big difference of how you see God, church, and religion.
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Filling an Empty Well
For many of us these days our energies are focused in fewer places than normal, which means those...
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What Do You Expect of Prayer?
Perseverance and indifference in prayer may seem in conflict, but prayer is an expression of desire followed by a trust in God.
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Jesus’ Paradoxical Life-Giving Tactics
The evil spirit uses the tactics of riches, honour, and pride to control us. Jesus has a different way.
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God’s Freeing Boundaries
My wife Sarah preaches on how God’s boundaries are ways we are freed from our own destructive devices.
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Are You at Home with Yourself?
When you put aside titles and labels and paychecks and comfort, are you at home with yourself?
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Love Doesn’t Make Sense
The way Jesus radically loves doesn’t make sense if you use the criteria of this world.
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Change! The Kingdom is Near!
What does Jesus mean when he talks about God’s “kingdom”? He spends a lot of time offering many metaphors for it.
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Rejoicing in the Third Week of Advent
What exactly does it mean to rejoice in the Lord?
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Grumble, grumble, grumble
Ever notice that everyone around Jesus is always grumbling, but Jesus takes a different approach?
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The Markers of Who We Are
What are those things, people, events, in our lives that indicate who we are? For King Nebuchadnezzar it was written on the wall.
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Advent is Our Story
As 21st century Christians we look through the lens of history having already happened. We approach Advent in a way that already knows the next chapter of the story. There’s a deeper story that is ours, too.
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What is God’s Will?
