Words wither and blogs fade away…
Forgive me if you’ve heard this song before, but I've decided to stop blogging at He is Sufficient. I truly appreciate all of the wit, wisdom and words of faith that you have shared with me over the past few years. I wish you well in all of your endeavors, whatever they may be and wherever they may lead you. “God is sufficient for the needs of His people”. Amen!
Category Archives: kingdom living
I am not Mark Biltz
In the video from yesterday’s “blood moon” post, Steve Hadley mentions that he originally saw this material presented by Mark Biltz, a messianic Jew with a church in Washington state. After digging around the original GodTube.com posting, I discovered the name of Biltz’s ministry… are you ready for this?
El Shaddai Ministries
At least that’s more on [...]
Wisdom in works
Recently I’ve been moving away from reading theological blogs. It’s not that I find theological nuances uninteresting, but too often the discussions are just words to me and I don’t see evidence of them bearing fruit in my daily walk. So rather than continue in that personal wilderness, I’ve been trying to take a more [...]
Kingdom life: “Roommates for Jesus”
HT: more fire
The New York Press has a compelling story about a communal Christian house in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn) run by blogger Jason Storbakken:
[They] are taking part in a form of cohabitation that few young New Yorkers could fathom: communal living with a religious twist. [...] It is a multiracial bunch, mostly made up of non-native [...]
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An open response regarding Christian environmentalism
In the comments to a recent post on Al Gore, Christianity and environmentalism, TC made the following statements (quoted, but edited together – emphasis mine):
I’m all for a cleaner environment for our enjoyment and our children’s children, but where is the biblical mandate? [...] We’re told in Scripture to love ourselves and not to destroy [...]
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Grokked, not yoked?
Luke 20:34-36 (TNIV):
The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They [...]
Surprised by Heaven?
I’ve gone and done something rather uncharacteristic for me: walked into a bookstore and purchased something from the Christian section. In this case, it is N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church“.
I’ve seen mention of the author many times in various blogs, but have never investigated further. [...]
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Calculating God’s will
The following was published today in Mikey’s Funnies, a daily humor subscription email:
CALCULATING GOD’S WILL
By Michael A. Halleen
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7:12)
John Cardinal Deardon once observed that “The designs of God are not able to [...]
Pruning the vine, vertigo and the powers of this dark world
Brian at συνεσταυρωμαι has written recently about the reality of spiritual warfare and the power of prayer to destroy the strongholds of the enemy. I had written earlier about the connection between our physical condition and the unseen war – the early comments to Brian’s first post underscore this thread of discussion. (Especially regarding the [...]
Salvation within the functional hermeneutic
Building on the previous post about viewing the creation account of Genesis 1 from a functional hermeneutic rather than a structural perspective, I want ask some parallel questions, fast forwarding from Genesis to our life today.
The functional hermeneutic suggests that the things we view as structural objects to Creation, e.g. light, water, plants, animals, all [...]
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Kierkegaard: Works of Love