Worship with My Life

SCRIPTURE: Is. 1-3; Tit. 3 Isaiah 1:16-17 Go home and wash up. Clean up your act. Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings so I don’t have to look at them any longer. Say no to wrong. Learn to do good. Work for justice. Help the down-and-out. Stand up for the...

A Dizzying Pace

SCRIPTURE: Amos 7-9; Ps. 104; Tit. 2 Amos 9:13b Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won’t be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! OBSERVATIONS:...

A Checklist and Report Card

SCRIPTURE: Amos 4-6; Ps. 86; Tit. 1 Titus 1:5-9 I left you in charge in Crete so you could complete what I left half-done. Appoint leaders in every town according to my instructions. As you select them, ask, “Is this man well-thought-of? Is he committed to his...

Reconsidering Ordination

Tony Jones is a wonderful thinker who rejects institutional church thinking for a wide variety of reasons. I keep track of what he writes over at Beliefnet and follow him on Twitter. Over the course of the past few days, I fear that Tony has finally taken a leap that...

You’re the Man

SCRIPTURE: 2 Sam. 11-12; Ps. 51; Matt. 23 2 Sam 12:7 “You’re the man!” said Nathan. OBSERVATION: David was the man of the hour. And he was the man of guilt in Nathan’s story. His talents and skills and abilities did not allow him to do wrong...