“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.” (Walter Mosley) This year’s reading list is – as usual – a wide-ranging series of topics that will fill your mind with big ideas and new ways of looking at the…
Having finally wrestled both Jews and Gentiles into orange jumpsuits, Paul is about to haul them all before God’s tribunal. He will soon deliver the summary of his most crushing verdict. But before he can do that, he has to…
Introduction First-century Christians lived in an age of massive leadership structures and hierarchies. They were surrounded by imperial administration and religious hierarchies, both pagan and Jewish. Yet Jesus Christ, the Head of the church, called them to a unique style…
The history of Israel, recorded in First and Second Kings, is like a huge painting, filled with details. Like any good painting, it has a subject, something that our eyes are meant to be drawn to. That subject is the…
“And how can you bring it home to them? By an inspiration? by a vision? A dream? Brothers! People! Why has life been given you? “In the deep, deaf stillness of midnight, the doors of the death cells are being…
After blasting the gentile world for it’s crimes (in Romans 1:18-32), Paul now swivels the guns around and begins to lob shells at a new – and most unexpected – target. He begins his assault with a shocking charge: “Therefore…
You may have physical resources, health, a great job, and lot’s of other things going well for you, but community is an intangible form of wealth that many of us lack. American society is notoriously disconnected from those around us,…
“…That we may be the better provided for this useful, and altogether necessary exercise of cleansing our hearts and ways, and apply it with the greater vigour, let us dwell a little upon that sacred expression in the Psalms, Wherewithal…
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads off from this world to another.” (Plato) The distance from earth to sun is more than 91 million miles. But because that number has a lot of zeros, astronomers measure that…
God is angry. In fact, he is furious, and it’s obvious to everyone. That’s the depressing news that Paul offers in Romans 1:18-32. Paul has already marveled, in glowing terms, about the wonderful gospel that is ‘the power of God…
