Read Colossians 3:1-17. NT Wright reminds us that the Christian hope is not for escaping this world of conflict and getting into a disembodied “heaven,” but for a resurrection of the body into a new heaven and a new earth. While we may be conscious and with Christ between death Read more…
Read Luke 11:1-13 So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. (Luke 11:9) When I was growing up, sitting in a long, boring church service, counting bricks, counting tiles, studying how the Read more…
Read Colossians 1:15-28. I became the servant [of the church] according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, the mystery that has been hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints. (Colossians 1:25-26) Read more…
Read Luke 10:25-37. You may have heard the story of the Good Samaritan many times, but at least in my case there has never been much sympathy for the priest and the Levite. Yet their passing on the other side of the road is an attempt to obey God’s law. Read more…
A. You know, if you make demands of people that they are not able to live up to, that’s dispiriting. Cruel, really. B. You have achieved all that you should be. You are perfect. A. That’s not what I meant. B. You are not yet perfect, but all that you Read more…