We’re looking at the unaltered, unadulterated, and unchanging Jesus. We have enough challenges in following Jesus without being ignorant about who it is we worship. This post will begin a discussion about the Jesus presented in the scriptures in hopes to expose a whole host of myths and draw some clearer distinctions between the timeless Jesus of history and the pretend one we hear about [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 28, 2008
I agree with the Pope
The presence of the figure of Jesus itself is becoming diminished—also with regard to the non-Christian contemporaries who surround us: the figure is transformed from the ‘Lord’ (a word that is avoided) into a man who is nothing more than the advocate of all men. The Jesus of the Gospels is quite different, demanding, bold. [...]
October 25, 2008
messin’ with the message
If you believe what you like in the Gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself. -Augustine
Okay, I’m admitting it: I’m not a big reader of the classics. So last year when I picked up a copy of Augustine’s ‘Confessions’ to add to my library it was a little [...]
October 22, 2008
not just any journey
Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God. It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in. -1 Peter 1:18
We talk about how life is a journey. We talk so much that it’s almost become just another worn-out slogan at this point. We [...]
October 14, 2008
more than mere feelings
The sin underneath all our sins is the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and that we must take matters into our own hands. -Martin Luther
I have stated on several occasions that I am a Jesus-follower even when I don’t feel like one. In other words—my relationship with [...]
October 12, 2008
relax
Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on [...]
October 4, 2008
the bare necessity
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery; in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair. -Blaise Pascal
My family went camping this past summer out on beautiful Lake Michigan, and [...]
October 1, 2008
revolutionary living
When an uninformed or misinformed individual suggests that Jesus was out of touch, old fashioned, or straight-laced—I just shake my head in unbelief.
How anyone could entertain the notion that Jesus was prudish is beyond me. It is to gloss over or skip altogether an investigation of the life and teachings of the God-man himself. And just as Jesus wasn’t living [...]
