By Chaplain Mike As I outlined yesterday, in Luke’s Christmas story (Luke 2:1-20) there are six verbs describing the actions of the shepherds in response to the Good News the angels spoke to them. The shepherds went (with haste). They found. They saw. They made known the saying that had been told them. They returned.Continue reading “Shepherds and the Doctrine of Vocation”
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Christmas I: An Ordinary, Humble Story Set on a Great Stage
By Chaplain Mike In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, toContinue reading “Christmas I: An Ordinary, Humble Story Set on a Great Stage”
Saturday Ramblings 12.25.10
Merry Christmas! It is Christmas Day everywhere that Internet Monk is read. Even in Ireland, where every day is Christmas for Martha. Even in Maine, where Joanie D and Ted keep Moxie in business by drinking it by the case. And even in Nebraska, where Santa has agreed to put Laree Lindburg back on theContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings 12.25.10”
Merry Christmas!
See, amid the winter’s snow, Born for us on Earth below, See, the tender Lamb appears, Promised from eternal years. Hail, thou ever blessed morn, Hail redemption’s happy dawn, Sing through all Jerusalem, Christ is born in Bethlehem. Edward Caswell, 1851
An Ordinary Night
By Chaplain Mike It was an ordinary night. If you stop to think about it, how could it have been anything else? Days and nights proceed in a generally predictable fashion. Things happen in this world. Some of those things take your breath away, true, but most of the time even the most remarkable, awe-inspiringContinue reading “An Ordinary Night”
Difficult Scriptures: Luke 1: 26-38
26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village in Galilee,27 to a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David. 28 Gabriel appeared to her and said, “Greetings, favored woman! The Lord is with you!†29Continue reading “Difficult Scriptures: Luke 1: 26-38”
Christian Protection Racket
“I heard you had a really big Christmas parade in Tulsa.†I was enjoying a few days this past week with my parents in Ohio when Mom shared this with me. “No, Mom, it really wasn’t that big.†“Well, I heard something about it on the news.†“Ah, well, what you heard was that ourContinue reading “Christian Protection Racket”
Paul’s Disappointing Approach to the Christian Life
By Chaplain Mike Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. Then people who are not Christians will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others. • 1Thessalonians 4:11-12 (NLT) This may beContinue reading “Paul’s Disappointing Approach to the Christian Life”
Programs Make Me Kranky
By Chaplain Mike For years, I spent a significant portion of my work life as a minister planning, creating, organizing, advertising, and presenting programs. For starters, each Sunday in our non-denominational church was a “program” of sorts. We approached the “worship” service in that way, at any rate. Our motive was to “make the mostContinue reading “Programs Make Me Kranky”
iMonk Classic: An Ideal Evangelicalism?
Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer From December 14, 2008 Note from CM: In the light of Michael Bell’s thought-provoking and discussion-inducing post of yesterday, I thought this classic Michael Spencer post could aid us in continuing the conversation. Somewhere in the previous orgy of comments I’ve had this week, someone asked me to writeContinue reading “iMonk Classic: An Ideal Evangelicalism?”
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