Category: Church

• Location, Location, Location

  My dogs kept waking me up the other night. Maybe God appointed them to the task, because a fruitful time of reading and prayer ensued. What resulted was a stream of Biblical consciousness on Facebook. It started with awareness that Jesus washed his followers’ feet while knowing that the Father had given all things into […]

  caregivingstinks

  September 27, 2022

  Bible, Church, Jesus

  Bible Study, Christian, Jesus Christ

• Was 9/11 the Last Sign of “Christian America”?

  The arguments fly back and forth about America as a “Christian nation.” On the right, it is an imagining of the past: an appeal for return to a once muscular moral order that, in the model of the Bible’s Book of Deuteronomy, brought national prosperity as the reward for obedience to standards revealed by God. […]

  caregivingstinks

  September 20, 2022

  Church, Culture, Jesus

  Christian, Christianity, Jesus Christ

• Christmas in September

  Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.  (Luke 13:24) I work on Sundays and can’t get to services, but I do listen to recorded sermons when I’m able. I’ve been blessed by preachers opening up these hard verses. “Agonizing” to enter through […]

  caregivingstinks

  September 6, 2022

  Bible, Church, Hope, Jesus, Worship

  Bible, Hope, Jesus Christ, Music

• Shut the Front Door

  After hearing yesterday’s Gospel, which included Jesus’ imperative to, Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able (Luke 13:24), I bumped into a correlation in the ever scary (for clergy) Matthew 23, But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom […]

  caregivingstinks

  August 22, 2022

  Bible, Church, Jesus

  Bible, Bible Study, Christianity, Church, Clergy, Jesus