Lection Reflections Is Your Pride Godly? (A Lection Reflection on Luke 10 and Galatians 6) If you were to plan a sermon on pride in most churches, the thought bubbles above the listeners would look like this: "Pride. Root of the seven deadly sins. God hates it. Bad stuff. Got it." <brain off&
Life in General Asking God to Leave ... and to Stay Let me ask you an obvious question: do you pray in your church services? OK, too easy. Here's a tougher one: do you expect anything to happen? And here's the toughest one: what if something happened, and it seemed to be tied to a certain one
Lection Reflections "A Little Lower than God" -- Really? There is a Bible study group that meets in a coffee shop I frequent. They sit at a long table near an easy chair where I like to relax, drink my coffee, and read the morning paper or write. From the first time I saw them, I suspected we might
Lection Reflections Pentecost -- Who Was There, and Why Do You Care? Let's play a game. I'm going to write a phrase, and you take a snapshot of the picture that pops up in your mind when you see it. Ready? OK -- just highlight the space after the parens with your mouse: (highlight with mouse -->) Gathered believers
Lection Reflections Tough Verses in John 17 (A Lection Reflection on John 17: 20-22) OK, let's get something on the table right up front: if you want to go beyond just the devotional, then some passages are hard. They raise issues of Christology and the nature of humankind that are both complex and challenging.