If you have read for long you may know one of my favorite televisions series is Grey’s Anatomy. Some may find this odd for a pastor. Since the early days of this show I have been intrigued at the ways in which contemporary culture has been portrayed, critiqued and at the same time uneasily encouraged. [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Humility … Prayers to keep us connecting to the humility of Jesus …
Bob Hyatt wrote this pieceafter reading the Liturgy of Humility.
(Thanks to Tommie for the pic.)
Prayer for Humility
From the desire to be esteemed,
Deliver us, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved by all…
From the desire to be honored …
From the desire to be praised …
Deliver us, Jesus.
From the desire of being preferred to others…
From the desire of [...]
Competing narratives … Dino does us a favor …
Life is contextual. We often speak as though we possess a great deal of objectivity. Occasionally we state the obvious influences in an attempt to work ourselves out of the subjective and into the objective. From our perceived position of objectivity we can make grand assertions as though we speak to some one about some [...]
Ascol posts, a battle ensues and IMonk (a.k.a. Michael Spencer) talks of contentions …
Last week Tom Ascol posted asking “What kind of person would make a good president of the SBC?” In the process a battle of sorts took place in the comment section. I do not recall ever seeing a blog post with nearly 300 comments (by the time you read this, there could be more though [...]
The Loss of Humanity … Who Will Stand for the Children? …
Baby boom! Our community of faith shares in the blessing of the gift of life. By the end of the day today we will have celebrated the safe arrival of three little ones in the last eight days and four in the last two months. These precious little ones came to mind as I read [...]
Beyond proforma faith … private to public … out on the roof …
The gospel passage from the Revised Common Lectionary for today comes from Mark 2:1-12. Some may wonder what would possess a pastor to use the “Lectionary” living in a tradition generally disposed to selecting a text at random to exegete, follow on in a series centering on a particular subject, or verse-by-verse – book-by-book method [...]
Slippery on the hill …
I am often asked about the name of our church. Questions about “hills” and “snow” in Oklahoma raise realistic questions as to the origin of the name, “Snow Hill.” We may get a couple of snows a winter and only occasionally more than an inch. We have some small “mountains” in Oklahoma but nothing when [...]
The high road … will the IMB Trustees take the road less traveled? …
Many of us who pastor understand the humbling effects of a necessary apology. People who attend our churches expect near perfection when it comes to interpersonal relationships. Some enter relationships with gregarious ease while others engage people a bit more reservedly. The former can come off plastic, the latter reclusive; the former overly friendly the [...]
No “Fat Tuesday” for these … they will always be with you …
The last Monday evening of each month you will find a group of young people serving. When it is very hot and when it is very cold they will be there. On the “Fat Tuesday Eve” they served. One of the men who helps coordinate our effort to feed the homeless, our Youth Pastor [...]
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