Reading Scripture Well (Part 2)
In the broadest sense, figural reading is a long-term visa and a rail-pass rolled up into one, that opens up pathways across the extraordinary terrain of the Bible, in a way that includes all reality.
Inhabiting a Strange New World
How might we make use of spiritual exegesis and the “fourfold sense” in our proclamation of the Bible’s strange new world?
On Apocalyptic Evergreening and the Re-use of Sermons
The Gospel of the Lord does not change, though its proclamation may sound forth in new places to new faces in every era.
Interpreting a Strange New World
Rather than acting as a signpost to the strange new world of Scripture, the sermon all-too-often obstructs our view of the Bible’s terrain. We have lost sight of the strange; our pews remain fixed in the familiar.
Being a Christian in a Secular Age
We may still be attracted to the holy, but disbelief permeates our faith in God because it’s what we “breathe in our times.” Therefore, it’s becoming harder – even for Christians – to view God as believable in today’s age.
On Priestcraft
In the role of a pastor, results are not tangible and are seldom measurable. Even when they are measurable, the question of what they are measuring is an open one. I can apply myself to a task and see nothing change over long periods of time. Pastoral ministry can often feel purposeless.
A Good Shepherd
This good and true shepherd’s interest in and care for all of us who became his “sons” was surely a sign to us that the Good Shepherd had plans for us and was counting on us to be His disciples.
Learning to Sing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land
Living with faith, hope, and courage in the time between Jesus’ resurrection and the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come, our life is “on the way.”