In a previous blog I wrote (Walking With A Limp) about the necessity of reordering disordered desire. I meant to get the second part to you the following week. I am sorry this is a bit late; my travel and other responsibilities have been heavy lately. Nevertheless, here we go… We begin to reorder our …
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I don’t know James K. A. Smith personally, but I do know his work (Desiring the Kingdom). With his writing demonstrating that human beings are fundamentally desiring beings, he is making a huge contribution to the discipleship needs of our times. My book on temptation, Our Favorite Sins, makes a similar argument: that the key …
My cherished friends David and Tina Segel (David was chairman of the board of Alpha when I was president) are the executive producers of a new film that Debbie and I were invited to see in LA last Friday—The Drop Box ( http://www.thedropboxfilm.com ). My long time friend Jen Alt is on the board of …
Our word Eucharist, sometimes called the Lord’s Supper or Communion, comes from a Greek New Testament word meaning thanksgiving or giving thanks. The thanks involved here is twofold: Christ gave thanks at the meal which instituted the Eucharist, and the church throughout the ages has practiced the Eucharist as the supreme act of Christian thanksgiving …