Field notes on life and mission with God after Christendom
After Peter confesses Jesus to be God's anointed one ("Messiah"), Jesus begins talking with the disciples about his path leads to the cross: he must suffer, be rejected, be killed, and then raised. Immediately after this, Jesus calls his disciples … [Continue reading] about Come and Die So You Can Live
"Taking the five loaves and two fish, and looking up to heaven, Jesus gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken … [Continue reading] about Always More Than Enough
According to Luke 3, John the Baptist's vocation was to be a voice in the wilderness calling people to "prepare the way of the Lord" through repentance, anticipating the "forgiveness of sins" and the arrival of the Age to come. He warns people … [Continue reading] about Repentance as Redistribution
The cosmos environing us actually is, beyond all else, a self-sufficing community of unspeakably magnificent personal beings of boundless love, knowledge, and power.Dallas Willard This remarkable sentence refers, of course, to the Trinity. I'm … [Continue reading] about Goodness + Wisdom + Power
"No one who drinks a well-aged wine wants new wine," Jesus said, "but says, ‘The well-aged wine is better’” (Luke 5:39). In the parable preceding these verses, Jesus is telling people that his presence is a new situation that demands a new … [Continue reading] about When the Old Seems Better