Winn Collier writes about the beatitudes as encouragements for those at the margins rather than a recipe of ‘be this and get that’. Why? To assure us that in the kingdom, we should never be undone by finding ourselves at the margins. From the post: The life Jesus announces really does turn everything topsy-turvy. Jesus …
The transition from outside the kingdom into the kingdom happens all at once. The transition of the character of the lives that have gone from completely outside to completely inside takes longer. We shouldn’t be discouraged. As Joel Littlefield writes Things That Matter Rarely Happen Fast. Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is like …
There can be a silence among families (particularly intergenerationally) about mental illness. Sometimes that’s done out of a sense of embarrassment or a well meaning desire to maintain privacy. What it achieves are walls that mean when later generations experience mental illness they feel isolated in that it doesn’t always occur to them that their …
Januarys being what they are pastors can find themselves looking at ourselves and others wondering if disciples of Jesus have made any progress during the previous twelve months. That can be a very, very depressing activity if we don’t hold on to the fact that, unlike justification, that sanctification is a progressive work that is …
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