Category: Attentiveness

Sometimes when you read a passage of Scripture it brings you back. It leads you back to important moments, events, or relationships.

Silent. Yet, I noticed the sun was starting to come up, so I must have missed my alarm. My phone was dead. No light. No numbers…nothing…

There is no question but that many of us feel that the current political climate, the divisions across societal and cultural lines within our country…

In all humility, we need to listen, learn, and revise our understandings of how God’s Spirit operates and the way His great work lifts up Jesus in each ethne.

Last Sunday, as I came forward to receive the Eucharist, I found myself overwhelmed by sin: the sins of the world, the violence, divisions among Christians and of course my own sin.

Gordon-Conwell had two commencement ceremonies in the last two weeks. Both from the Charlotte and Hamilton ceremonies, we sent out pastors, missionaries, counselors, teachers, and other church workers into a world that is increasingly hostile to the gospel.

Last week a friend commented to me, “You must be doing something right because it seems the demons are pretty active.” I don’t know if that is correct, but it did bring to mind a reading from the Ancient Christians…

“Professor, yesterday my church was attacked by gangs, and it was destroyed and partially burned down. We are now meeting in homes. We are thankful that no one was injured, but we don’t know what to do now.”

“Did you feel the earthquake?” This was the topic of murmuring circulating the campus on April 10. An earthquake in New England is a rare, but not an unknown, occurrence.

The picture above reflects something of the joy of the resurrection. Our friendships and joy come from Christ’s victory on the cross.