Love Rather than Integrity
Love allows for not insisting on one’s own integrity at the expense of the unity of the community. Stendahl, Krister. Paul among Jews and Gentiles... Read more
Category: Writing
Guilty of the Whole Law (March 21-27, 2021)
Guilty of the Whole Law “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all” (James 2:10).... Read more
Is God like Santa Claus?
He’s making a list, And checking it twice; Gonna find out Who’s naughty and nice. Santa Claus is coming to town He sees you when... Read more
If I Surrender My Body to Be Burned
And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love,... Read more
Paul Expected to Be Alive at the Coming of Jesus
Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed… 1 Corinthians 15:51 For this we say to... Read more
Interesting Quotes from Krister Stendahl
I must work at the much harder task of trying to be fair to Paul, forgetting all I know of a long Christian history and... Read more
Faith that Can Move Mountains (March 14-20, 2021)
Faith that Can Move Mountains “And Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt,... Read more
Disarming Hebrews 10:25 – Required Sunday Assembly?
When I was a toddler, my biological father would pick me up at 12:00 to go to his house until 4:00 on Sundays. Then he... Read more
Doctrine is a Useful Distraction from Living
The whole Bible is for the church the book: we are people of the book. But by shifting the emphasis from an unspecified biblicism to... Read more
Sometimes I Don’t Know What to Write About
Sometimes I don’t know what to write about. Sometimes I sit here and think all night and struggle to come up with something to say.... Read more