When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.” The house of Israel called it manna…
Soul
“Consequently I should like to understand the soul in a different way from Plato and say: human life is completely human when it is completely alive. But human livingness means being interested in life, participating, communicating oneself, and interest in life, love for life. It expresses itself in life that is fully lived because it is life that is loved. Our ‘soul’ can always be passionately interested, and by virtue of love do not hold our lives back but go…
Heaven is a shy bird.
Heaven is a shy bird. If you march out and demand a song you will hear nothing. But sit still for a long time, again and again, and let your waiting spread a safe, green meadow of silence, and because you have waited— not for your own sake but for her— she will sing. Steve Garnaas-Holmes 4.30.12
Wondering
Christopher Morse states, “The most real thing about our present life on Earth now is heaven.” What does this mean to you?
(Why is your) Heaven so small.
We listened to this song in worship Sunday as we considered the difference heaven makes. We invite you to do the same where you are today.
Toward Sunday
We continue our four-week worship series this Sunday called The Difference Heaven Makes with emphasis on the reality of heaven. Our worship series will be rooted in the biblical texts below and the work of two important theologians: Christopher Morse (The Difference Heaven Makes) and Jurgen Moltmann (Sun of Righteousness, ARISE! and In the End-The Beginning) Outline of Series September 8: Hearing of Heaven Today (Isaiah 60.1-9) September 15: The Theology of Heaven (I Corinthians 7.29-31) September 22: The Reality…
Moment of Clarity
“The resurrection of Christ is not just a promise that you get to go to “heaven” when you die. It’s a moment of clarity that heaven is at the heart of this world. It unveils the reality that God, who brings creation out of chaos and life out of death with loving grace, is actually the dominant force in the universe. Despite the appearances of this world, the anxious workings of our ego-minds, and the powers of this world…
Wondering
What about heaven do you disbelieve?
Heaven
We are listening to this song in worship as we consider the difference heaven makes. We invite you to do the same where you are today.
Toward Sunday
We continue our four-week worship series this Sunday called The Difference Heaven Makes with emphasis on the theology of heaven. Our worship series is rooted in the biblical texts below and the work of two important theologians: Christopher Morse (The Difference Heaven Makes) and Jurgen Moltmann (Sun of Righteousness, ARISE! and In the End-The Beginning) Outline of Series September 8: Hearing of Heaven Today (Isaiah 60.1-9) September 15: The Theology of Heaven (I Corinthians 7.29-31) September 22: The Reality of…
Hearing of Heaven Today
“Contrary to a Time magazine cover portraying a fluffy cloud bearing a man peering out into an all blue yonder with the byline, ‘Does heaven exist?,’ most of the references to ‘heaven’ in the Gospel testimony are not about blue skies or life only after death. Remarkably few of the approximately six hundred and seventy-five instances of the term found in the Bible may be said to be reducible to such categories of interpretation. In such testimony, heaven neither begins…
Wondering
What images of heaven did you encounter as a child? How was heaven talked about when you were a child? What spoken and unspoken messages did you receive about heaven as a child?
Heaven
We will consider these two definitions of heaven in our worship over the coming weeks: (1) heaven [is] exclusively…the place one goes to when one dies… and (2) heaven is the origin of a reality that is coming towards us at present. Your life is an open doorway where God enters the world. What you say and do, what you notice, what you hold and set down, each is a portal. The passage is best left open, not filled. Fully…