1Co 9:19 For though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. 1Co 9:20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are......

Did Jesus ever get on anyone's nerves?...

Paul writes – I love this statement from Segundo Galilea ( via Simon Holt ). “Christian spirituality is, before all else, an initiative by and a gift from God who loved us and seeks us; spirituality is then our recognition of and response to this love of God that desires to humanize and sanctify...

Paul writes – Just catching up with a few older issues of Christianity Today, specifically the September 08 issue. It has three interesting articles:   David Fitch explains that emphasising the “big gospelâ€� can make it hard to communicate any gospel. You can read his reflection here . &#...

"The Rich Man and Lazarus" (formatted for modern residents of urban neighborhoods) There once was a rich man, expensively dressed in the latest fashions, wasting his days in conspicuous consumption. A poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores (likely due to his runaway diabetes and no health care o...

Image by play4smee via Flickr In Galatians, Paul uses some strong language, my favourite of which is where he muses that people obsessed with circumcision should go ahead and cut it all off (Gal 5:12). Googling Galatians, I found this guy (no link love for him) who argues that the KJV (which I love)...

I'm in and out of giant church buildings on a fairly regular basis. Not long ago I walked from one end of such a building to the other. It was quite a trek! This particular "campus" is enormous. No doubt the structure cost several hundred million dollars. That's a long way from the "upper room." The...

Great news to share today! Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins has agreed to keynote Central Dallas Ministries' 14th Annual Urban Ministries Prayer Breakfast ! This special, annual gathering of community leaders from every sector--business, political, non-profit, neighborhood and community...

James A. Harding , for whom my college alma mater was named, possessed a deep spirituality that is still reflected in many of the faculty and students of the school. Harding certainly understood the centrality of a concern for the poor and the marginalized in his faith system. Bobby Valentine remind...

Lots of people continue to assume that very poor people find themselves in their poverty because they are much in need of an experience with God. The poorer the person, the more it would seem to these folks that what's called for is a good, old-fashioned conversion experience in the life of the poor...