I am Second

Sunday Reflections
Last night we began our new teaching series, “Finding our Voice in the Psalms.” The underlying intent of this series to find our voice as a people who are living on the edge of their lives, sensitive to the raw hurts, the primitive passions, and the naïve elations that are at the bottom of our life. I am asking that we depart from the closely managed world of public survival, to move into the open, frightening, healing world of the voice of the Holy One.

Mission-the key to the grand narrative of Scripture
It is not controversial to claim that the Bible tells a storyof the world in which we find our place and role. The controversy comes when we say that this story is a metanarrative about the meaning and destiny of universal history. Scripture, as N. T. Wright puts it, “offers a story which is the story of the whole world. It is public truth.”

Praying with Walter Brueggemann
Praying the Psalms depends on two things: (1) what we find when we come to the Psalms that is already there; and (2) what we bring to the Psalms out of our own lives. [W]hen we come to the Psalms we shall find their eloquence and passion and boldness in addressing the Holy One. [W]hat we bring to the Psalter in order to pray is a candid openness to the extremities in our own lives and in the l

Sunday Reflections
Commitment – [kuh-mit-muhnt] –noun the act of committing. the state of being committed. the act of committing, pledging, or engaging oneself. a pledge or promise; obligation. engagement; involvement. Covenant – [kuhv-uh-nuhnt] –noun an agreement, usually formal, between tw