Jesus Creed

Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who…

Our daughter, Laura, asked the other day about a study Bible and I recommended this one: TNIV Study Bible. What are your favorite study Bibles? OK, I messed up. I wasn’t thinking — I recommended to her the TNIV, not the NIV, Study Bible … so I just corrected the post.

City lights of Chicago:

We saw it last night. Monday I’ll post a brief review of Mamma Mia! The Movie, but Saturday is for music. And I dare you to listen to the clips below … and not have the song on your mind for the rest of the day.

We have turned to Alan Jacobs, Original Sin, and his essay-like approach to original sin. I want to begin today with a question:

I swiped this newspaper article about Jonathan Williams, whose camp we endorsed some time back. The camp was a success and kudos to Jonathan and Kari from Scot and Kris.

If you’re interested in my take, this is an example of how not to write for a blog. I don’t know Chad Hall, and I’m sure if I met him in a different setting it would be different, but this post is like entering into a room and asking for a fight just for the…

Does anyone know of a good video on how we got our Bible?

There are two things I really like about Nick Perrin’s new book, Lost in Transmission. The first is that Nick gets it when it comes to the level of books the church needs more of. Evangelicals, in the 70s and 80s, decided to be more scholarly; that’s a good thing. In the process most of…

I want to remind the Jesus Creed blog community of an offer I made to read a book and engage in a conversation here about it. We will begin on August 11th. The offer is for these kinds of people: people who have struggled with their faith, people who are spiritual directors who know the…

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