In yesterday’s reflection, I began thinking about what it means to pray “May your Kingdom come soon.” I explained that the teaching...
Several years ago, we bought a pack of twelve plastic "Resurrection Eggs” filled with various symbols representing key moments in the Easter story. We worried the eggs could be a little cheesy, but...
The message and ministry of Jesus was centered in the kingdom of God. At the beginning of Mark’s Gospel, for example, Jesus begins preaching “God’s Good News.” Here’s the central message: “The time.....
I’ll never forget the first time I had a boss apologize to me. I was floored. But it changed our relationship. His transparency forged a bond of trust that made me want to...
*This is part 2 of the Laity Leadership Institute Missional series with Senior Fellow Darrell Guder, who is the Princeton Theological Seminary...
We enter into a vocation with high hopes. But after years go by, it can turn into a daily grind and we...
The great twentieth-century author J.R.R. Tolkien did not like intentional or conscious allegory. Certainly his fantastic writings do not lend themselves to...
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"What's your 5-year strategy?" Bradley asked. ...
Jesus said, “This is how you should pray: Father, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come soon.” Luke 11:2 For those of us who have grown up praying the Lord’s...
In 1982, when I was a sophomore at Baylor University, Tony Campolo spoke at a state-wide gathering of Christian college students. By the end of his sermon, provincial scales had fallen from my...
Somehow it happens. Between listening to bedtime stories and skinned knees and first dates and college and a wedding, and then you’re the mom telling bedtime stories and kissing skinned knees and going...
Deep down, I'm a free spirit. If I had my choice, I would prefer a world where I was the one to...
Then a despised Samaritan came along, and when he saw the man, he felt compassion for him. Luke 10:33 The parable we...
Transcript “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions!” Those words boomed behind Brenda as she left her boss’s office. And she resented every word. The problem was not her fault. Besides, her boss...
I walked into the dining room and gasped. Oh my, what a two-year-old can do in a brief space of time! While I'd been chopping, frying, and boiling, she'd been stringing, draping, and...
If you are eager to learn how to love God and neighbor in the context of your work, you cannot do it...
