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Friday is for Friends
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xscot mcknight
Telford Work closes this book,Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, a series of ruminations leading to themes in the Lord’s Prayer, with three sermons under the chp title “Amen.”
God’s Rivals 1
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xscot mcknight
Our day needs its best theologians, historians, biblical scholars, missiologists and pastors to sit down at table to discuss world religions. The issues pressing for answers are enormous in significance, and that is why I’d like to open a series on why God has allowed different religions? And, of course, the very question assumes the…
Risotto! Risotto!
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xscot mcknight
Some of you may know I like to cook, and my favorite dish is risotto. For a few years I’ve been using a nice pan but it was wearing out. Very kindly, Lukas and Annika (probably mostly Annika) bought me a Mario Batali Risotto Cookware and I’ve now made my first pot of risotto in…
To Kris from Kris
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xscot mcknight
Kris bought herself something, wrapped it up, and opened it for Christmas (well sort of since she opened it a few days before Christmas). Kris likes to know what time it is at night, our eyes are such that we can’t always see across the room and focus on the little red lights so we…
Divine Embrace 14
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xscot mcknight
John Piper and Robert Webber (The Divine Embrace) have one big, central idea in common: Christian spirituality is not about the self but about God. Whereas Piper focuses on a Calvinist vision of God, Webber focuses on a liturgical vision of God. For both, genuine spirituality gets lost in God — for Webber one gets…
It Happened Again … a major annoyance
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xscot mcknight
This may have happened to you, but it has happened to us too often – as in 2 times in the last 3 months. We check into a hotel, sometimes as the guest of someone else but even when not, and they ask for our credit card (in case we are someone’s guest, they supposedly…
Christmas 2007
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xscot mcknight
It’s not easy to decide when the Christmas season begins, perhaps when Thanksgiving is over or at the lighting of the First Advent candle or when grading is over and the grades are submitted or when … it’s all a part of it, isn’t it. We attended Willow Creek’s service on Saturday, along with my…
Bible series resumes …
By
xscot mcknight
… on January 7 when I will begin a lengthy series on the meaning of Kingdom of God. I will examine every reference to “kingdom” in the Gospels to examine this question: Is the kingdom bigger than the Church?
Too much Christmas
By
xscot mcknight
For Webster … What do you expect for a 15 year old Bichon …
Christmas Words: Gifts
By
xscot mcknight
“On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh” (Matthew 2:10-11). Christmas, the original one, had gifts.
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