“Nothing in my hand I bring, simply to Thy Cross I cling.” — Augustus Montague Toplady “Blessed are the poor in spirit” is Matthew’s version of our Lord’s sermon; Luke has simply “Blessed are the poor.” When we lack financial resources, people say we are “needy” and “broke.” When we lack spiritual resources, people says we are “needy” and “broken.”…
[Today I begin a series of blog posts reflecting on the Sermon on the Mount. I am spending the summer reading this fascinating and challenging text for three reasons: 1) to prepare for my Christian Ethics course this fall, 2) to prepare for a Sunday night sermon series at Cloverdale, and 3)…to be fully transparent…to resist the forces of culture…
Christian claim #2: “I believe in the forgiveness of sins” Houston…We Have A Problem! We have a problem. And how we deal with the problem is, well…problematic. On the one hand, we all sense deep down in our bones that something is wrong. The psychiatrist Carl Jung’s theorised that deep in our bones we are fractured and are in search…