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A Good Weekend

NOTE: Sorry it took me awhile to get to comments and clean out the spammers today. If your response comment got deleted, it’s because the whole thing was just too weird to try and explain. Sigh… What is your definition of a “good weekend”? How about this? I traveled to my favorite city in theContinue reading “A Good Weekend”

Easter III

By Chaplain Mike Today’s Gospel: Luke 24:13-35 road taken friend welcomed hearts broken grief spoken word opened then home guest summoned meal proffered grace offered bread broken eyes opened christ known

iMonk Classic: In the End, God Knows Us (A Meditation for Friends)

Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer From May 3, 2009 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God… (Galatians 4:9a, ESV) I’ve been teaching Galatians for over a year, and I happened to cross this verse this week, a week marked by the passing of one ofContinue reading “iMonk Classic: In the End, God Knows Us (A Meditation for Friends)”

Saturday Ramblings 5.7.11

Welcome to the Mother’s Day edition of Saturday Ramblings. All moms who are reading this, thank you. Thank you for all you have done, are doing, are trying to do. Raising kids is no picnic today. Enjoy all the praise given you tomorrow, even if it is the only day out of the year yourContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings 5.7.11”

The Liturgical Gangstas Talk about What They Read

Presented by Chaplain Mike TODAY’S QUESTION: What do you read? What kinds of books do you most frequently read? What do you read for pleasure? What is the best book you’ve read in the past year? In our day, reading habits include blogs and web publications. Which are required reading for you? Alan Creech, RomanContinue reading “The Liturgical Gangstas Talk about What They Read”

The Scariest Word Of All

This morning we looked at the name many Christians shy away from —the name of Jesus. Now I want to look at the scariest word to many who claim to be followers of Jesus. I wrote on this word a few weeks back and took shots upside the head in the comments for days afterward.Continue reading “The Scariest Word Of All”

A Most Difficult Name

I am a man of words. Not a man of few words—just ask those who have spent any time with me. I read and write and speak in words. We all use words everyday in one way or another. As Christians, we are people of The Word. But I’ve noticed there are certain words weContinue reading “A Most Difficult Name”

You Knew It Would Come, Sooner Rather than Later

By Chaplain Mike Amid the discussions of how Christians should respond to Osama bin Laden’s death, you knew, you just knew we would learn sooner rather than later how this all fits into Biblical prophecy. Since this is not my specialty, I will leave it to the “experts,” who with perfect hindsight, now tell us,Continue reading “You Knew It Would Come, Sooner Rather than Later”

How I Got to “OK”

By Chaplain Mike From the start of my ministry three decades ago, there were aspects of being an evangelical pastor that I simply did not “get.” I would hear other ministers speak and tell about what God was doing at their churches, learn about their approaches and their programs, listen to testimonies from folks inContinue reading “How I Got to “OK””

Another Look: It’s OK…to Just Be a Christian

By Chaplain Mike I thought this post from last year (4/19/10) was worth another look. I hope you will too. It’s a bit of a riff on the question asked by the prophet Micah: “What does the Lord require of you?” (Micah 6:8) In the light of last week’s discussions on “radical” and other adjectivesContinue reading “Another Look: It’s OK…to Just Be a Christian”