blip : Being Lonely In Paradise :

Title: Broken Body Language
Date: January 27, 2008
Texts: Isaiah 9:1-4; Psalm 27:1, 4-9; I Cor 1:10-18; Matt 4:12-23.
He is not just one who prays, not even one who prays best, he is sheer prayer. – Herbert McCabe
This passage from I Corinthians is always bad news for preachers. We’re basically [...]

[Read more →]

Title: What are you looking for?
Date: January 20, 2008
Texts: Psalm 40:1-11; Isaiah 49:1-7; I Cor 1:1-9; John 1:29-42.

Jesus turns mid-step, and sees two guys trailing him. Maybe they only wanted to watch from a distance, safely from the margins. But Jesus fixes his eyes on them, and puts them on center stage with a question, [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve worked my way through Stanley Hauerwas and Rom Coles new book, Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian (Cascade, 2008). Not only does Rom Coles offer Christians a different vision of politics and democracy with so many possibilities, I also think he brings out the best in [...]

[Read more →]

Title: When Jesus gets here
Date: January 6, 2008, Epiphany Sunday
Texts: Isa 60:1-6; Ps 72:1-7, 10-14; Eph 3:1-12; Matt 2:1-12

What happens when Jesus gets here? What happens when Jesus arrives?

That’s the question of Epiphany. What change after Advent?

We just finished our season of Advent, our time of anticipation. And I think it’s safe to say that [...]

[Read more →]