What is this “sin against the Holy Spirit”? Why can’t it be forgiven???
Blaspheming the Holy Spirit? I do not think it means what you think it means…
June 10, 2012 by 11 Comments
Daily Devotion: Talk Doesn’t Matter In The Kingdom of God.
July 21, 2011 by 10 Comments
I know I am not doing all I could do, hunkered down behind a computer, writing out my own thoughts when I can make time, regardless of how effective those words may be. I need to get out. Into the world.
Daily Devotion: The Logos and The Sophia of God
July 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Luke 10:22. All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Daily Devotions: God’s Breath and The Meaning of Pentecost
June 12, 2011 by 6 Comments
Jesus was not baptized by water. He was baptized by the Breath of God, the Holy Spirit. The water is only a symbol.
The Holy Spirit is vitally important, because the Word of God cannot be formed without the Breath of God. God’s creative will cannot be enacted without Breath.
Daily Devotion: Killing Your Self with The Breath of God
June 9, 2011 by 6 Comments
God never once speaks of how important the Self is. God’s ultimate concern is with the whole, the “congregation”, the “nation”, “all peoples”. All of Jesus’ teachings are steps on the path to minimizing or even destroying the Self.
The Way of Christ is the way of the cross, where the Self is crucified for the sake of the many.
Sunday Devotion: Radical Grace and The Reality of Laboring in Vain – The 2nd Week of Epiphany
January 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Bible Readings for Sunday January 16th, 2011 – The 2nd Week of Epiphany *Click on each bible passage to expand the text. Isaiah 49:1-7 1. Listen to me, O coastlands, pay attention, you peoples from far away! The LORD called me before I was born, while I was in my mother’s womb he named me. [...]
Daily Devotion: Elisha, Simon, and “Joe Six-Pack”
January 15, 2011 by 2 Comments
Bible Readings for Saturday January 15th, 2011 – The 2nd Week of Epiphany *Click on each bible passage to expand the text. Psalm 40:1-11 1. [To the leader. Of David. A Psalm.] I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry. 2. He drew me up from the desolate pit, [...]
Daily Devotion: Crappy Brothers and The Holy Spirit
January 14, 2011 by 1 Comment
Bible Readings for Friday January 14th, 2011 – The 2nd Week of Epiphany *Click on each bible passage to expand the text. Psalm 40:1-11 1. [To the leader. Of David. A Psalm.] I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry. 2. He drew me up from the desolate pit, [...]
