Here’s an interesting bit of Biblical trivia: aside from Jesus’ resurrection, there’s only one miracle that’s mentioned in all four gospels. Do you know which one it is? Well, the the title of this post is a bit of a give-away, isn’t it? Now I’ve read some interesting theories as…
So this is a day late. Hopefully not a dollar short, but then, I’ll have to let you be the judge. When my wife and I got married, we honeymooned in Chicago for a few days. We saw the sights, but one of the things I wanted to see was…
Do you hear the world groaning? It’s faint, easily drowned out by the business and busy-ness of our lives. Truth be told, I think we often do our best to ignore the groaning when we do hear it. We want to pretend like it’s not happening or that it’s a…
Last week, I spent some time musing about the Ark of the Covenant, spinning through some theories about where the sacred box may have wound up. My money is still on it being destroyed by the Babylonians. It just makes theological sense to me that it was destroyed. It’s a…
So last week, I wrote about what it means to pray in Jesus’ name, how that isn’t a magic formula that somehow turns God into a wish-granting genie. That’s usually what we hope for when we approach God in prayer. Yes, we may try to dress up our requests in…
So does truly successful prayer involve magic words? It may seem like that at times, doesn’t it? We bring our prayers and requests to God. We know we need help with some problem that’s bigger than us, and we know that He should be able to help us. But even…
True story time. When I was in college, I was part of the pre-seminary “club” called AEX (which stood for adelphoi en christo, or Greek for “Brothers in Christ”). We would meet for weekly Bible studies and do the occasional service projects. And occasionally, we would get asked to lead…
Shortly after I arrived at my present parish, several of the members worked on cleaning the church up. They found an older painting and showed it to me and asked if they should get rid of it. The moment I saw it, I told them to keep it. Not only…
Have you ever heard creation sing? That may sound like an odd question to ask. It sounds like I’m trying to anthropomorphize the world. You know, speak of an inanimate object like it’s a human being. Poets do that sort of thing all the time when they’re trying to be…