Reflections for

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Aug 25, 2013

Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm 71:1-6; (Isaiah 58:9b-14; Psalm 103:1-8;) Hebrews 12:18-29; Luke 13:10-17

Cover Story

The Bible plus

The four books of Mormonism

Aug 08, 2012 by Kathleen Flake

The LDS canon's four books carry equal weight of authority. All are read as historical witnesses to God's promise of salvation.

Cover Story

Erasing Hell

What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We’ve Made Up

By Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle

The Fire That Consumes

A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment

By Edward William Fudge

Who Will Be Saved?

By William H. Willimon

A hopeful universalism

Why we can hope everyone will be saved

Jun 18, 2012 by Paul Dafydd Jones

God's "consuming fire" is the fire of holy love. It doesn't await sinners in the future; it burns up sin itself.

Books

Healing in the Bible

Theological Insight for Christian Ministry

By Frederick J. Gaiser

God of wholeness

Apr 10, 2012 by Walter Brueggemann

Fred Gaiser offers a sober, accessible review of the biblical materials pertinent to our thinking about healing.

Features

A weary prophet

Jeremiah's vexing task

Jan 04, 2012 by Frank G. Honeycutt

The thing about serving as a prophet is that you are forever stuck between what God wants and what the people want.

Blogging Toward Sunday

Saying is believing

Jeremiah 1:4-10

Aug 16, 2010 by Martin B. Copenhaver

One of the things I most appreciate about the call stories in the Bible is that there is no single template. When Peter, Andrew, James and John are summoned by Jesus to leave their nets to follow him, “immediately” they do just that (Luke 4:18-22).

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