As we discussed in the previous post, from our earliest days, we know what it’s like to be excluded. Some of us spend too much of our lives trying to be included in whichever group is important to us. And far too often, that exclusive group is the church. But that’s not the church as…

Do you remember when you were a kid? One of the most difficult times was when you were on the playground, and you were going to play a game, and so you decided to choose up teams. Do you remember? There were always two people, two captains who were supposed to choose their teams. And…

I’ve heard the Magnificat, the Song of Mary in Luke 2:46-55, for decades. And the tendency with any familiar passage is to let it roll over your head and therefore fail to wrestle with its content or its import. I confess I’ve often had that attitude with this one. But when I sat down, opened…

In my last post, we discussed living out the mission of Luke-Acts in today’s world and ended with a quote from Robert Heaney, “Mission is, in fact, not defined by us. Mission is defined by God.” Spirit-filled Cosmos But to live in a way that somehow looks like God’s mission, we must consider the “spirit-filled…