I have been reading a fairly old book "The Lost Books of the Bible" that is a collection of books from much longer ago. So far I have read, "The Gospel of the Birth of Mary," "The Protoevangelium," "The First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ," "Thomas Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ," …
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“Enoughness” Part 2
You are welcome to look back on Part 1 if you want. However, that was more of a critique of a podcast and where I was inspired by the 'not-so-correct' English term "Enoughness." For me, I would like to think of "Enoughness" as a characteristic of commonality of humans. None of us are identical with …
The Moth Joke— Revisited
I wrote a post on another website--- Bukal Life Care. I think it is quite appropriate on this site in its topic and message. However, instead of putting it both places, I will just give you the link. I took a joke from Norm MacDonald (who just passed away from cancer) modified it, and used …
Publicly Broken
I put a post on the website of the counseling center I am involved in. It is called "Publicly Broken" and look at sports celebrities who have in recent times admitted to struggles, particularly psychoemotional struggles. Not all of the responses to these admissions have been positive. There are parallel challenges with regard to religious …
Missions Podcasts
Years ago a missionary acquaintance of mine had asked whether I wanted to work together with him on a podcast or something. At the time I said that it sounded interesting, but I never really acted on it. First, I had no real interest in dong a podcast, and second, relatedly, I never listened to …
Serving as a Christian Missionary— Is It Worth It?
Quote from the movie, "Men in Black"-- where "K" explains what it means to become a member of the the 'MIB" Edwards: What's the catch? K: The catch? The catch is you will sever every human contact. Nobody will ever know you exist anywhere. Ever. I'll give you to sunrise to think it over. Edwards …
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CHALLENGES IN CHURCH-INITIATED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES
Long ago I wrote up paper on Christian Community Development based on my personal experiences, and interviews with acquaintances of mine who were involved in CCD in the Philippines. I wrote it because I was hoping to expand into a full dissertation for my Doctor of Theology. In the end, I went in a different …
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Reflections on a Visitor
We are in the US right now, staying in an extended stay inn. It has been a fairly good place for us--- decidedly unfancy, but we are decidedly unfancy people. Last night at 3am we had a visitor. We had a knock on the door... followed by more knocks. I ended up getting up and …
The Missionary Journeys of Peter (Part 2)
In Part One, I talked about how much of the history of the early church was structured around the Acts 1 version of the Great Commission, with the missionary journeys of Paul providing much of the narrative. In Part One, I suggested that we may have enough information on the Mission Journeys of Peter to …
My Strength is My Temptation– Part 1
I guess it struck me when I was talking about Love Languages (Gary Chapman) with my Pastoral Care Students (or maybe my wife's CPE trainees... I can't remember for sure). As I was talking about the five love languages <Quality Time, Words of Affirmation, Physical Touch, Receiving Gifts, and Acts of Service>, I noted that …