6/30/2023

 

John 8:36  (NIV)

36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

6/29/2023

 27 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.”

28 He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

Luke 11: 27-28 (NIV)

6/28/2023

 This could be paraphrased for today's world and hold just as much insight, value, and strength in the statement.

Joshua 24:15  (NIV)

15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

6/24/2023

James 1:19-20 (NIV)

19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,

20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

6/23/2023

 

Joshua 1:9

9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”

6/22/2023

 

1 Corinthians 16:13  (NIV)

13 Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.

6/15/2023

 

1 Peter 4:14

14 If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

6/14/2023

 

1 Chronicles 16:12 (NIV)

12 Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,

Interest take

Borrow from a Yale Divinity School article    

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:1-5)

Here we have a charged otherworldly utterance: St. John opens with a steep fall, plunging us into truth’s mystery. He replaces the infancy stories of the previous three Gospels. Where the earlier books narrate Christ’s entrance into humanity, St. John gives us a theological statement of the how and the what: How Jesus traverses the divine and human realms. How Jesus is the incarnate God. Or rather, St. John gives us a poetry of origins. And poetry is essential here, because this passage is about a Word—a Word that transcends all others.

6/11/2023

 

1 John 3:16  (NIV)

16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

Prayer

 Lord our God, help us to love You with all our hearts, and to love every person as You love them. Help us to build up Your Kingdom in this place and time. Amen

Theology Job interview.

 So on June 5th, I went to a job interview for a Theology Instructor at a college preparatory academy owned and run by a religious community.  Name and denomination withheld on purpose.   I met with four members of the faculty on my interview board.  One was their EED director. One was HR, The Chair of the Theology Department and the last was in charge of their STEM programs.  

I felt like I was way out of my element.  Most of the questions were on how I was going to teach and be inclusive even to those who did not really want to learn anything about religion.   Since all the students were there because their parents enrolled them and came from wealthy families that could afford to keep them out of public school.

So now I wait.  They said all four of us they interviewed would be notified by this Friday, the 9th at the latest.  I will be honest I walked out of the interview pretty sure I had done poorly and have no chance, but with prayers and blessings I just might get it.

6/7/2023

 Romans 15:13 ~ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.  (NIV)

6/05/2023

 

Job 19:25 (NIV)

25 I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.

6/2/2023

 

Romans 5:10  (NIV)

10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!

6/1/2023

 Psalm 103:17  (NIV)

17 But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children—