Posts from April 2010 (Page 2)
Where the Sick People Go
Did you read a Glance at Grace, April edition? Good, so you know Doug wrote about the church as a hospital not a museum…. So the idea of church as a hospital… Jesus answered some folks who were criticizing the company he kept by saying, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” Ever wonder…
Hosanna! Save Us Son of David!
Jesus asked, What do you want? … to see …we brought you our friend so that he might walk …I’ve bled for 12 years …my child is sick …my brother is dead …we are oppressed by the heathen Romans! He answered, Your sins are forgiven. One of the criminals hurled insults at him, “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and…
Trust
Mention the word “trust” today and you may very well launch a lengthy and heated discussion on why we don’t trust (politicians, church leaders, spouses, God) or what trust does look like when it’s put to the test. This is an especially lively topic when its target is “the God we cannot see.” Intrinsic to all trust is the surrendering of something of ourselves to another.…
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