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Yesterday’s post sets up today’s. Peter is addressing the powerless — much more powerless than we can probably recognize today. And they are “slaves” (the Greek word probably indicates “household slaves”). Peter is addressing the gamut of the “household” (2:18–3:7) so it makes sense to include “household slaves.” Peter’s concern is how they should live,…

Before anything else, let’s admit this up front: it is not easy for us to look at 1 Peter 2:18-25 (on slaves submitting to masters, as Jesus submitted to the Father) without fire in our eyes, shame in our history, and nuance all over everything we say. Why? Because of what we know about the…

One of my students, Tim King, was overwhelmed by the needs of the homeless and has joined others to found a marvelous ministry to the homeless:

I pulled out of the driveway at 6:15am to drive around Lake Michigan into the breezy climes of Western Michigan — and arrived in Sawyer to speak at Harbert Covenant around 9:30am — their time (not Chicago time). Gave me plenty of time for prayer and preparation for the sermon. I met Joel Kruggel, the…

The Big Ten is the Big Zero this year. No one left in the NCAA — no one in the Sweet Sixteen. Dr. Naismith’s grave is rocking, I’ll tell ya. The major heartland of the USA teams are home for the summer. The inevitable conclusion: basketball on the East Coast, from Boston down to Tallahassee,…

Pam Cooke, at Cold Springs Community Church, gave Kris and me a bottle of her home-made honey: Bee-Attitudes. She has some of those bee “drawer-“looking objects in the field at the home where we stayed, and she explained to us a little of how one keeps bees and harvests honey. So, we were delighted she…

I’m off early this morning for a Jesus Creed morning with the Covenant Church in Harbert, Michigan. The good folks there are going through the book during Lent, and so it is nice to be invited to put some “flesh” on that book. Next week we fly down to Sprindale Community Church in Louisville, and…

I’m on Spring Break this week, so I’ve had more time for reading blogs. Blog post of the year for me: Dawn Husnick’s story of the ER.

That first round of games in the NCAA tournament is a test of wills — when the #3 rated Iowa Haw-geyes, the Big Ten Tournament Champion, took on the #14 seeded Northwestern State, from Natchitoches, La., one would think it would be a “show up, win, and get ready for the next” game for Iowa.

The rise of the Southern Baptist Convention out of the confines of its own walls into a major player in Western Christianity’s evangelicalism calls for a conversation. There were days when the SBC was all to itself, read only books from Broadman,
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