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Thinking small; THINKING BIG
Why have only one when you already have them all? “So don’t boast about following a particular human leader. For everything belongs to you— whether Paul or Apollos or Peter, or the world, or life and death, or the present … Continue reading
Faith of our Fathers
I wasn’t born yesterday, and that’s something you can say about both me and my faith. After almost four decades of exhausting ourselves chasing relevance, it may be high time to look back. Back past the Jesus Movement; past three … Continue reading
Jonah just doesn’t get it
I am a lot more like the prophet Jonah than I would care to admit, but I’m going to try to this morning. Jonah is often called the reluctant prophet because God called him to preach to the town of … Continue reading
The comedy of grace
We need not take ourselves so seriously. We ended last week with laughter — how there is humor in God planting His Holy Spirit in these frail, fallible, human vessels of ours. That’s grace, and there is a part of … Continue reading
New covenant laughter
I recently had the chance to preview a new faith-based movie coming out in the fall called The Identical. It’s actually a faith-based movie that doesn’t seem like one, and I mean that in the best possible way. In the … Continue reading
Wise Ted
I suppose you could call this a postscript to yesterday’s Day 21 of our 21-Day Challenge. I thought of this story as I was writing yesterday about our experience ministering to the students at Gordon College. This was a similar … Continue reading
21-Day Challenge: Day 21
The contrasts of the new covenant The new covenant is all about contrasts, and the contrasts present such a different model of Christianity — of any kind of success-oriented teaching, for that matter — that we will miss it if … Continue reading
21-Day Challenge : Day 20
Life and death We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for … Continue reading
21-Day Challenge: Day 19
Through the cracks We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. (2 Corinthians 4:8-9) These verses, about what life throws at us, immediately follow … Continue reading
21-Day Challenge: Day 18
Cracked pots But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. (2 Corinthians 4:7) This is the key verse to understanding how the new covenant works — … Continue reading
John Fischer The Catch 