For all the nuances in terms of italics, then you’ll have to go to Ben Myers’s original post. As one who’s grown to appreciate “Theology” that affects all of life from the most personal to the most public, I’m delighted by this series and am following it closely. 🙂 for me it’s more of seeing…
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Review: Embracing Grace Part 1
Special Thanks to John Fyre for sharing his review series with us. I’m away from internet access for a couple of days. So I decided to pre-post from other blogs point to stuff that’s “nourishing” & “nurturing” (as opposed to “draining!”) _________________________________________________________________ What is the gospel? Scot McKnight’s Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of…
Random Thoughts before Labuan Trip
I will “overcome” – and persevere 😛 Glad to manage to delegate through email some stuff which needs to be shared. Today was supposed to be a Sabbath … most of it was. 🙂 Good to spend some time with close ones. I’ve been eating crabs for two weeks (or more precisely in the span…
God’s leadership model
“Here is God’s leadership model: he chooses fools to live foolishly in order to reveal the economy of heaven, which reverses and inverts the wisdom of this world. He calls us to brokenness, not performance; to relationships, not commotion; to grace, not success. It is no wonder that this kind of leadership is neither spoken…
Random Links 108
Open Forum with Lauren Winner – Real Sex: The Truth About Chastity (mp3) I thoroughly enjoyed the frankness and sensibility of her sharing. Sex doesn’t have to be a taboo topic, it can be one which leads to a fresh view on our body especially in relation to God. Open Forum with N.T. Wright –…
I Am So Small
” I am so small, a speck of dust moving across the huge world. The world a speck of dust in the universe. Are you holding the universe? You hold onto my smallness. How do you grasp it, how does it not slip away? I know so little. You have brought me so far.” ~…
Pilgrim’s Progress: Learning from Billy Graham
As I listen to Billy Graham’s thoughts here in Pilgrim’s Progress, it gives me a chance to think about mine now, and what would I say when i’m his age? Here’s stuff that leaped out for me: “… You can see more from a mountain, and from the perspective of years. Graham believes both the…
Random Thoughts around 6:30pm
I’m cuttting and pasting stuff I’ve commented elsewhere … …mere theological experimentation for novelty is not helpful but then I don’t think genuine thoughtful theological reflection can’t open missional and pragmatic possibilities … a minimum is to open up fresh categories for engagement at all levels – starting from thinking to doing. … I think…
Motion Trio & Bobby McFerrin – The Heart
The Heart … nice title. nice reminder what to guard.
eMo 2006.8: Joy’s Conversion, Al’s Confusion & More
*Updated from previous post: read further down below* Thanks Al again for being the fastest writer and blogger to post the “raw” stuff of our conversation thus far. I think the impression one will get as I am is that the issues are complicated and one needs to perhaps “slow down” and chew on the…