In a previous post and podcast I made an effort to establish a couple things. One is that as Christians we live in a Babylonian type exile. Two Old Testament books and two in the New devote huge chunks of material on this not nearly obscure theme (Jeremiah, Daniel, 1 Peter, and Revelation). The other …
In the Meantime, Bless Babylon (What Jeremiah 29:11 really means) Part 1 of 2
I mean no disrespect... ...when I say that most of what I’ve ever heard populist preachers say about this verse as a mantra for wealth and health is bogus. I’m not saying that God isn’t interested in our well-being or bank balance, but I don’t think we can justifiably extrapolate automatic “Everything works out for …
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Spirit-Saturated Servant Subversives
Seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper. . . . For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29 …
DTs and the Presidential Campaign
Six months ago when it seemed that the presidential race rhetoric couldn’t get any more out of balance I posted a two-parter called: “The Beauty of Balance.” I couldn’t have imagined that it was only the beginning of our country’s out-of-whackness. When the rhetoric of presidential candidates (and the pundits thereof) morphed into childish name-calling …
How To Inherit The Earth
How To Inherit The Earth: Submitting Ourselves to a Servant Savior by Scott Bessenecker, the Associate Director for Missions for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, is simply the best book I’ve read in years on spiritual influence. I wish I had understood and practiced the things that he unpacks in this small book about the ways of …
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