October 2020
October 5
Day 205: Defend and Deny We're not good at accepting our own guilt, our own culpability. Our fallen nature motivates us to employ defensiveness. And when defensiveness doesn't work, we resort to denial. People haven't changed all that much over time. In Matthew 27, when Pilate said to the crowd, "I am innocent of this […]
October 4
Day 204: Know, Feel, Do Now reading in the early part of Acts, I continue amazed at how Peter "suddenly" changes. He goes from blustery, ignorant fisherman to eloquent preacher and apologist for the faith. Chapter 2 has Peter standing up and giving the Church's first recorded sermon. No week to prepare. No books on […]
October 3
Day 203: Blood and Righteousness We're overdue. For a quiet day. Where we don't have to think about too much. And that day is today. We are purposefully "Sabbathing." Out of necessity, if not desperation. A strange week past for me. Our oil furnace went out. No heat. No hot water. It was like camping. […]
October 2
Day 202: Renew the Covenant I grew up in the 70's, the decade that changed the Church in North America. It wasn't a some liberal departure from Biblical theology, but clearly a departure from previously accepted norms and expectations. It was in the 70's that churches first started hiring "youth pastors." Theirs was to bring […]