ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGSFebruary 19, 2020Scripture: Luke 6:40Disciples aren’t greater than their teacher, but whoever is fully prepared will be like their teacher. Thought for the Day: I am rereading Derek Penwell’s book, “Outlandish: An Unlikely Messiah, a Messy Ministry, and the Call to Mobilize.” He has some very thought-provoking lines, and the following caught my attention last night: Jesus calls us to go on an adventure, not a church
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGSFebruary 18, 2020Scripture: John 13:34I give you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, so you also must love each other. Thought for the Day: I absolutely adore Anne Lamott’s writing. Her words are provocative, while at the same time, uplifting. She writes, “Grace is spiritual WD-40, or water wings. The mystery of grace is that God loves Henry Kissinger and Vladimir
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS February 17, 2020 Prayer for the Week: Your Spirit has come to set us free. Jesus declared the blessing and indwelling of the Spirit as his empowerment for the work of liberation. O God who called forth Moses to guide an enslaved people to freedom, we notice a reoccurring theme wherever your Spirit is received by those who yearn to do your work. Too many sisters
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS February 16, 2020 Scripture: John 14:26 The Companion, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I told you. Thought for the Day: Interesting, John’s Gospel tells us how the Holy Spirit will teach us “everything” we need. Now I believe the Spirit works in a multitude of ways, but it appears that
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS February 15, 2020 Scripture: Jude 6-7 And the angels who did not keep their own position, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day. Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS February 14, 2020 Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:10-11 …fornicators, sodomites, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me. Thought for the Day: What is a sodomite? It is a word that the translators along the way simply conjured up. The Greek word translated here has nothing to
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS February 13, 2020 Scripture: Deuteronomy 22:23-25 If there is a young woman, a virgin already engaged to be married, and a man meets her in the town and lies with her, you shall bring both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry for help in the town and the man because he
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS February 12, 2020 Scripture: Matthew 7:4-5 Or how can you say to your neighbor, “Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.” Thought for the Day: If we are honest with
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS February 11, 2020 Scripture: Genesis 19:4-5 Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom—everyone from the youngest to the oldest—surrounded the house and called to Lot, “Where are the men who arrived tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may have sex with them.” Thought for the Day: This Sunday, we are going to have a serious conversation on same-sex
ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS February 10, 2020 Prayer for the Week: Our lips, our vocal chords, our lungs – they create song; they give witness to a joy that may not be easily expressed in expository form; they provide a mechanism by which our gratitude reverberates in the hearts of others. We sing to you a new song, O Lord. The melody may not be well known. In fact, it