May 26, 2010
Like many of you, I have tried to stay engaged in the conversation regarding our state’s new immigration law, both in conversations and in reading media reports. And frankly, my head is spinning as I see people all over the map. Consider these differences within very narrow categories: First is the “young, white, trendy, conservative [...]
May 19, 2010
This week I had the unfortunate experience of searching for a particular magazine at four different stores, all to no avail. The process reminded me that there is perhaps no more concentrated collection of our culture’s idols than the magazine rack. You know as well as I do what these idols are, so there is [...]
May 12, 2010
Deuteronomy 10:14-19 “Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your [...]
May 12, 2010
On Sunday we knelt together as a church family to seek God’s direction regarding how we might move toward our neighbors in love in the way Christ moved toward us in the gospel. Here are three immediate, concrete answers to those prayers that I hope will only be the beginning of a new phase of [...]
May 4, 2010
As I have read articles on our state’s new immigration law and thought through the church’s response, by far the most helpful thing I have encountered was written 60 years ago by an Oxford professor. C.S. Lewis wrote The Screwtape Letters as a fictional correspondence between an older, experienced demon and his young protege. The [...]
May 3, 2010
God willing, I will address how we keep our mission and calling as God’s people central in the midst of the various “causes” surrounding the immigration debate. Pray the God would give us clarity and reinvigorate our sense of purpose in this world as we anticipate the return of our King.
