If I had to guess, I’d say that I’ll be posting on “the scandalous impracticality of all that Jesus stood for” really soon as I can’t seem to stop thinking about it.
As a prelude to that though, I wanted to point to a message Gib offered to the Living Hope community this past Sunday when [...]
Entries from July 2008
Riches in Poverty
July 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: decisions · kingdom · living hope · money
My 4th
July 9th, 2008 · No Comments
I spent the 4th of July with friends and family back in Ohio and on Pelee Island on the Canadian side of Lake Erie.
I left Memphis Wednesday night, was supposed to switch planes in Detroit and then get into Akron/Canton. Unlike my brother, for whom traveling is almost always filled with surprises of the negative [...]
Tags: family · friends · travles
Justice is What Love Looks Like in Public
July 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments
Caught this over on my friend Julia’s blog. The same friend who had “until the last lock breaks” tattooed on her arm. A few years ago I was completely unaware of this global injustice, but my present awareness changes virtually everything about how I understand and seek to live out the good news of God’s [...]
Tags: gospel · justice · kingdom
What the Gospel is Not
July 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
I saw this in my friend Laura’s blog. Though I differ from John Piper on some issues, this video is not one of them. I think maybe what I like most about John is that he is not wishy-washy. He’s not afraid to say what is wrong and what he is against. The prosperity gospel [...]
