Sunday, I taught from Matthew 18:21-35. It is the parable of the unmerciful servant who owed his master “elevnty bajillion dollars” and was forgiven every last penny of that debt. His response is to go to another servant and choke him in order to get that servant to pay back the at least [...]
The other night, me and a roommate got into a heated intellectual debate. It got heated enough that we both recognized the need to cut the conversation off immediately, walk away, and not start it up again. The Spirit immediately began to work on my heart, on how I should have acted differently, [...]
The following is some thoughts born out of an online discussion between me and Alan concerning a blog post.
Here is the original blog post: http://guymuse.blogspot.com/2009/05/when-can-we-be-church.html
Here is Alan’s blog on this post: http://www.alanknox.net/2009/05/how-would-we-respond.html
Alan challenged me to get started right away, and instantly a hundred excuses popped into my head. But they were all just [...]
It’s been interesting the past few days, talking to people about how are church can feel free to spend all day Sunday at the beach. You can always tell there’s an implicit belief that we were skipping church. I think that if you asked most people, “If you had to boil the church [...]