The mission is dangerous because God's will for the world is in deep tension with the way the world is organized.
03390 – Why the Mission is Dangerous
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03189 – Churches: Honest?
Churches should be the most honest place in town, not the happiest place in town.
02873 – Prophetic Ministry
The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us. from The Prophetic Imagination
02752 – Waymaker
You are the God who makes a way when there is no way. Free us from our anxious intransigence and our impoverished imaginations. Open us to your newness, the gospel gift given over and over and over again. Amen. from Devotions for Lent: A Way Other Than Our Own
02099 – We Determine Who is Telling the Truth
We are, on this night, at the pivot point of the Jesus story. And it turns out that on this night we are at the pivot point of the story of the world. Everything depends on the outcome of the trial of Jesus before Pilate. It is a trial we get to remember tonight. It...
01775 – For a Privileged People
Let the pulse of our heart throb now, according to the cadences of your rule: command and we will obey, overrule and we will yield, lead and we will walk, where we would never think to go. from Prayers for a Privileged People
01769 – What is Sabbath?
Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.
01730 – U.S. Church in Crisis
The crisis in the U.S. church has almost nothing to do with being liberal or conservative; it has everything to do with giving up on the faith and discipline of our Christian baptism and settling for a common, generic U.S. identity that is part patriotism, part...
01548 – Singing: Our Glad Assent to God-givenness
We sing because life is God-given, God-sustained. and God-claimed. Our singing is our glad assent to that God-givenness and refusal to have our lives be less than, more than, or other than that. from "A Glad Obedience: Why and What We Sing"
01350 – You are Risen!
You are risen in power and wonder;You are risen out of the shambles of death and terror and doubt and fear;You are risen to turn the world to peace and justice and freedom and well-being;You are risen with healing wings to cure our diseased hurts and our public...