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  • Good Friday Meditation

    Good Friday Meditation

    The Christian message, the Christian story, goes something like this: God came to earth and we killed him. God came to earth in the God-man, Jesus, and we nailed him to a cross. Why? Jesus went around announcing he was God, the Great I AM, who can forgive sins, who was there in the beginning, who Read more

  • Lessons From the Rise and Fall of Hillsong

    Lessons From the Rise and Fall of Hillsong

    This is a good article, with lessons for the church that apply far beyond Hillsong. When the church puts being cool above being holy, when church leadership is more concerned with relevance than faithfulness, bad things happen. The article might be behind a paywall so here are some key takeaways: “Evangelicals would do well to Read more

  • Maundy Thursday: Jesus Sets the Standard

    Maundy Thursday: Jesus Sets the Standard

    On Maundy Thursday, Jesus gave his disciples a new command: to love one another as he has loved us. While the command to love had been given in the Old Testament law, Jesus deepens and redefines that law with his own example of love, first in washing the disciples’ feet, then in dying on the Read more

  • Pride vs Community

    Pride vs Community

    One of the great obstacles to genuine Christian community is pride. We certainly see this with the Pharisees in the gospel accounts. The Pharisees’ self-‐righteousness makes them sectarian and divisive forces within Israel. The same kind of pride can rear its ugly head in the church today. For example, when Christians make too big a deal out Read more

  • Communion Prayers, Ancient and Modern

    Communion Prayers, Ancient and Modern

    The ancient communion prayer from the Didache: As this broken bread was scattered over the mountains, And was gatheredtogether to become one, So let Your Body of Faithful be gatheredtogether From the ends of the earth into Your kingdom; for the glory andpower are Yours forever. A modern adaptation of the prayer (source unknown): As grain Read more

  • Community and Communion: Quotes and Notes

    Community and Communion: Quotes and Notes

    Community is about the convergence of our lives in Christ. It’s about God giving us the gift of each other. When Sartre said, ‘Hell is other people,’ he had it exactly backwards. C. S. Lewis was much more accurate in The Great Divorce when he pictured hell as people moving further and further apart. It’s been said Read more