The Lord’s Supper is a remembrance of and participation in God’s victory of sin and death. It is not a place to dwell on his actions rather than ours. We could think that God’s focus is on the work of Jesus, and not our works, as well. …when Christians meet, they break bread and drink …
Another reason to hold Robert Farrar Capon with some affection is his dislike for daylight savings. Well, not so much a dislike for the concept, but for the inequity that it imposes against early-risers at the hands of the more indolent. To illustrate his point that is their laziness deserves no indulgence he poses a …
When Jesus brings the dead back to life in the Bible the events are not resurrections. All those returned to life eventually went to a grave. But the power of life that Jesus exercised demonstrates the completeness of human need and the presence of a life in him that can meet all that need. Jesus …
While the future is ahead of us, we find ourselves facing the past; there is a comfort in focussing on what we know more certainly that bids us orient ourselves toward what has been rather than the uncertainties of what will be. Facing the unknown and uncertain future results in us looking in a direction …
If you’re attending worship with other Christians tomorrow and hearing a sermon, may it have this character: Preachers of the Word labor under three distinct requirements. First, they are to be faithful (pistoi). They are called to believe, and they are called only to believe. They are not called to know, or to be clever, …
From Robert Farrar Capon: Confession is not the first step on the road to recovery; it is the last step in the displaying of a corpse. Between Noon and Three, pg 74. Confession is not a transaction, not a negotiation in order to secure forgiveness; it is the after-the-last grasp of a corpse that finally …
“Here’s what you should do. You are not doing it. Try harder.” The writer of this post ascribes this quote to Robert Farrar Capon, but doesn’t tell us where it comes from exactly. It reads like something Capon would write.
