[I highly recommend these books. Crabb's book is on dealing with suffering, Lamb's is about the difficulties we have with the Old Testament, and the ones by Cole are about how we do church and how we might do it better: Shattered Dreams... God Behaving Badly... Organic Church...] Shattered Dreams– God’s Unexpected Pathway to Joy, …
Angels make you eat!
[This might be a re-blog. I couldn't remember if I'd posted it before. It's a piece from my memoir, which, by the way, I'm trying to publish. Could use some prayer on that score. I hate the business side of things.] For months, even the thought of eating was an unpleasant one. Chemo tends to …
The First Epistle of Haggai XXI* (Chapter 2)
[An excerpt from chapter one by way of introduction: Haggai, called to be a prophet of Christ Jesus by the will of God after the manner of my grandfather Haggai of a former millennium. To the church of the Baby Boom generation scattered throughout the western world, especially in the United States, chosen by God …
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The First Epistle of Haggai XXI*
Chapter one 1 Haggai, called to be a prophet of Christ Jesus by the will of God after the manner of my grandfather Haggai of a former millennium. To the church of the Baby Boom generation scattered throughout the western world, especially in the United States, chosen by God to spread the meaning and message …
Recommended reading #5
[A Wideness in God's Mercy / Irresistible Revolution / Submerge] A Wideness in God’s Mercy – The Finality of Jesus Christ in a World of Religions, by Clark Pinnock This book by a respected (albeit, quite controversial) theologian teaches some extremely provocative things about God’s mercy reaching people with no adequate Christian witness. Pinnock is …
