All Blog Posts for May, 2008

Blogging Toward Sunday

Blogging toward Sunday

Gen. 6:9-22, 7:24, 8:14-19; Rom. 1:16-17 & 3:22-31; Matt. 7:21-29

May 25, 2008 by Peter J. Leithart

Luther contemplated the righteousness of God, and recoiled. “Love God?” he wrote years later, “Sometimes I hated Him.”

Blogging Toward Sunday

Beauty in balance

Matthew 6:24-34

May 19, 2008 by Nanette Sawyer

When Jesus talks about making wealth our “master,” sometimes he is speaking to the peasants who may not have bread to eat, and at other times he is speaking to the collaborators with the Roman Empire who are able to accumulate wealth for themselves. Somehow he addresses both groups simultaneously and leads them all toward the justice and peace of the kingdom of God.

Blogging Toward Sunday

When I was a boy

Genesis 1:1-2:4

May 11, 2008 by Nanette Sawyer

Biblical language about God often reflects the patriarchal cultures in which that language was crafted, but every once in a while we get a glimpse of a God who transcends male identity. In Isaiah, God comforts us like a nursing mother comforts her child. Jesus said that he wished to gather up the people of Jerusalem like a mother hen gathers up her chicks.

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Euphoric with hope

Acts 2:1-21

May 05, 2008 by Nanette Sawyer

A pastor was having a difficult time reading the book of Acts because she kept thinking about the imperial context in which it is set. How is her/our understanding of the story changed if we keep in mind that Jerusalem falls well within the bounds of the Roman Empire?

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