At this banquet for a bride and groom wine runs out…but Jesus provides the wine so that the banquet can resume. The prophetic texts of the Hebrew Testament that testified to the coming Messiah all had banquet overtones that described abundance and the flowing of wine.
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One of the reasons I’ve been so MIA in writing lately is because I finished up a two week intense class on the Gospel of John. One of the project was to complete a journal of the book, with 1 paragraph per chapter. I thought I would post those 200 word entries over the course [...]
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This was originally posted on July 31, 2005. At the time I was in full time ministry on Capitol Hill ministering to those in positions of influence in the American government. In the midst of ministering I also began to wrestle with the intersection of American Christianity and the American government, with the Kingdom of [...]
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I wrote this post last summer for my friend Christy who was finding it hard to believe. I repost it today for another friend, who is finding it as equally hard to trust and believe Papa in this season of his life…for J.
There are times in our lives when we can move mountains, when our [...]
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So far we’ve seen that we the Church are fundamentally a sent people. The Church does not exist for itself, rather it exists for the world. And we’ve also seen that this thing called the Church is Jesus’: He started it, He’s sustained it, He is building it. What’s more: a gathered, called-out people was [...]
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I’ve been thinking long and hard recently about what I want this space to be. Is it a place for talking smack or is it a place that cultivates renewal, both culturally and personally? To that end I’m going to start a weekly study on the Book of Philippians. It isn’t going to be anything [...]
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For a friend who finds it difficult to believe right now.
“How can this man give us his flesh and blood? This is absurd!” A sharp argument broke out among the Jews, centering on this graphic teaching of the Man from Nazareth.
“I tell you the truth, my friends, unless you eat the flesh of [...]
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