There is a trend towards singing songs addressed to a Jesus who has been stripped of any references to the narrative that makes him who he is. Such songs speak of a "Lord" called "Jesus" who makes the singers feel loved and accepted, but often there is no reference to...
When people are empty of Christ, a thousand and one other things come and fill them up: jealousies, hatreds, boredom, melancholy, resentment, a worldly outlook, worldly pleasures. Try to fill your soul with Christ so that it’s not empty.
We don’t really know what happened at the moment of the Ascension, just as we don’t know exactly what happened when Jesus left the tomb in which he had been buried. We do know that he was never recognized by sight, but only by voice, or in the breaking of bread, or...
Basically, you can translate “the kingdom” as “the Big Picture,”… The kingdom of God, or reign of God, is how things objectively, truly and finally are. Jesus is always inviting us to live in the final and full picture, and not to get lost in momentary dramas, hurts...
Kingdom people are history makers. They break through the small kingdoms of this world to an alternative and much larger world, God’s full creation. People who are still living in the false self are history stoppers. They use God and religion to protect their own...
There is no need to doubt the literal nature of Christ’s ascension, so long as we realize its purpose. It was not necessary as a mode of departure for “going to the Father” did not involve a journey in space and presumably he could simply have vanished as on previous...
Christ has no body now on earth but yours,no hands but yours, no feet but yours;yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion looks out on the world,yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing goodand yours are the hands with which He is to bless us...
Jesus shows us, when women lack jurisdiction, church commissions lack women, and even altar girls are barred in a Christian community that says they are permitted, the invisibility of women in the church threatens the very nature of the church. from In the Heart of...
Today We Honor Women in Ministry My pilgrimage can be described rather simply and easily. Basically, the scenario goes like this: I listened to the Story, and I believed. When as a child the community of faith told me Jesus loved me and when they demonstrated that...
In his daily practice, Jesus rebelled calmly against the deepest rules of his world. He lived his own parable of the Banquet and the injunctions of the master in it: “Go therefore to the thoroughfare and invite to the marriage feast as many as you can find.” In the...