From Craig Barnes’ ‘The Pastor As Minor Poet’ (Eerdmans, 2009). As a minor poet, the pastor doesn’t simply tell people to be satisfied with their limited lives but instead helps them to find the joy and sacred purposes to these limits. Some of the things that are missing from the garden are good and certainly …
This Koorong webpage is advertising Sally Lloyd-Jones’ Jesus Storybook Bible for the very low price of $10.00 for one week from February 9-15. The link still lists it at $17.95, but you’re all smart, so you’ll get it for the listed price, won’t you? Order a poultice of them and use them for resources and …
More from Craig Barnes’ ‘The Pastor As Minor Poet’ (Eerdmans, 2009). Craig Barnes seeks to describe what poetic leadership looks like in a culture of anxious worry seeking immediate solutions for every problem. So it is not surprising that the pastors’ continued devotion to great and holy ideals would put them out of step with …
If you’re attending a Christian gathering tomorrow, remember it’s not because of religion. It’s because, for those in Christ, we celebrate the end of religion and the restoration of relationship with God. “In a sermon Dick Lucas once preached, he recounted an imaginary conversation between an early Christian and her neighbor in Rome. “Ah,” the …
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