How baffling you are, oh, Church, and yet how I love you! How you have made me suffer, and yet how much I owe you. I should like to see you destroyed, and yet I need your presence. You have given me so much scandal and yet you have made me understand sanctity. I have …
Following the Spirit and not our Feelings: Evelyn Underhill on Calling and Desire
Just a few days ago, I came across this extended quotation from Evelyn Underhill from her fine little book, The Spiritual Life. Underhill speaks to the interface of our calling and our desires, and the challenge our feelings can bring to truly following God's call upon us. I had originally read these words about three …
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Bibliography for Songs of the Savior: Psalms for Advent
When I conclude a sermon series, I often share the resources I used to help me study and prepare my sermons. Here is that list of books for the recent series, "Songs of the Savior, Psalms for Advent." Bibliography for “Songs of the Savior: Psalms for Advent” Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Life Together and The Prayerbook of …
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Bibliography for Love-Sex-Body series
Here is the resource bibliography that accompanied the development of the recent preaching series, "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality." I utilized many resources for specific messages within this series, and many, but not all, of those are included in this bibliography. Bibliography for "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality": Alberry, …
Asking Better Questions: Marva Dawn on a Sexual Ethics of Character
Here is Marva Dawn halfway through her marvelous book Sexual Character: Beyond Technique to Intimacy on the ways in which an ethics of character, or virtue ethics, aptly shapes our engagement with love, sexuality, and the body: The main task of ethics is to enable us to ask better questions about the issues of our day. An …
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