Posts Tagged ‘Sacrifice’

Did God Say?

There’s an old Yiddish saying that God never says just one thing. His Truth, real, enduring, universal Truth is just too vast, too deep and too full for complete human understanding. It makes sense though; infinite Truth, by definition, must outstretch mortal, finite human categories and definitions. Human...

February 4th, 2013 | Featured | Read More

In defense of Jonah (part II)

A man I know: Jim. An older, white-haired man from Berkeley. A guitar player with a wife and two kids, a Jewish man. I’ve known him for years. We work out at the YMCA together. I know his son Zach, also. He’s probably 27 or 28 by now. He worked out at the Y several years ago before leaving for college...

June 13th, 2012 | Essays, Featured | Read More

In defense of Jonah (part I)

For whom will we will put our lives at risk? For whom will we sacrifice happiness? We decided to study the book of Jonah in our community group. It was my idea. Maybe I liked it because it was a short book (four chapters) and thought we could knock it out in a few weeks. I’m sure there were other...

June 11th, 2012 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Of Blisters and Ashes, High Heels and Lent

Walk A Mile event in Saginaw, Michigan. Photo by Alex Slitz/The Saginaw News. Love God; love yourself as God loves you; and love others as you love yourself. As a Baptist minister, Ash Wednesday and the Christian season of Lent are unfamiliar things to me. But as I have tried to understand and embrace...

March 15th, 2011 | Featured, Social Justice | Read More

Why Is It So Hard to Sacrifice?

I know that Jesus said he desires mercy more than sacrifice, but there are times when sacrifice becomes a spiritual necessity, such as when we metaphorically cast out our own eye or cut off our own hand rather than give in to temptation; or when we go without so that we understand the gifts God gives...

February 16th, 2010 | Blog | Read More