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When God Isn't Shaken
In 2 Corinthians 2, Paul is unsettled over Titus and the church at Corinth even while ministry is going well. When plans, health, work, or politics don’t go how we expected, we too find ourselves shaken. But, no matter how uncertain we feel, there is a source of certainty we can turn to: our God.
Slowly Then All at Once
Unfaithfulness rarely begins with one grand rejection of God; it grows through small compromises that seem harmless because life is still going well. In Judges 1, Israel receives clear direction and real success, then starts choosing what feels easier, safer, and more efficient. How far can those little shortcuts carry God’s people from him?
God With Us
You know what it is to walk in darkness and wonder if God will ever draw near. Israel knew it too—enslaved, exiled, occupied—praying over every generation that a child would come. In Matthew 1 that child is born, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which means God with us.
God Sent You to Babylon
We didn’t ask to show up where we showed up; God designated it anyway, whether that place felt like a gift or a darkness we never would have chosen. Jeremiah 29 puts God’s people in that same kind of place: Babylon, with the Lord saying He caused them to be carried there. What do you do when the place you’re in was never your idea?
Sometimes the Shrimp Hides the Problem
We’ve all felt the temptation, after someone has been called out for sin, to just leave them there and be done with it. But in 2 Corinthians 2, Paul tells the Corinthians this punishment is enough—now they need to forgive and comfort the one they punished.
“So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.”
Episode 49: We Report, Jason Cries
The Boys are back — one standing, one sitting — both trying to make sense of Cardinals chaos, Blues heartbreak and the first hundred days of Trump 2.0. Plus: speculation on the next album from Taylor Swift and a meditation on the mystery of Jesus’ two natures.
Sometimes the Little Things Are Big
One would never have guessed the power of just zooming the camera back.
In late spring, as I’ve written, our beloved local priest, Father Mark, died of esophageal cancer at age 49. The grief-stricken congregation was oddly denied admission to the parish church for his funeral. The church ended up being half empty; the service was to be streamed for those who cared to watch.
Ecclesiology, Doctrine, Ecumenism: A Few Difficult Questions
I am provoked by an internet presence that goes by “Redeemed Zoomer,” presumably a 20-something young man holding theologically conservative views, and similar views on Christian ethics, who is Reformed.
Oremus
When one of my sisters phoned the other day, we got to talking about the church in which we grew up.
We were raised high-church Episcopalian. When you went to church there was no other place it could possibly be and nothing but worship could have possibly been going on. As the priest consecrated the body and blood for communion, he — yes, he — faced the altar and crucifix. We received communion on the tongue while we knelt at the communion rail. The lay readers — those who read the Epistle at each service — were enrobed, as were we acolytes.
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