Archive for the ‘Loving People’ Category
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
I want to begin to chronicle, for posterity, the seismic shift that has been taking place in my heart and life over the last couple of years. All of this is a work in progress. I do not know where all of this is going or how it will all ...
Posted in How Did I Get Here, Jesus, Loving People, Politics, Social Conscience | 21 Comments »
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” Anne Lamott (Note: If you haven't read Traveling Mercies, what are you waiting for?)
“The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their ...
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
God's green earth: Local pastor takes environmental focus
Here's another article about me. Since most people won't click the link, here is the text.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
By Katy Moore
Tribune-Herald staff writer
When pastor Scott Freeman prayed last year for God to help him be more loving toward other people, the Hewitt resident ...
Posted in Evangelical Cllimate Initiative, Loving People, Social Conscience | 6 Comments »
Monday, April 10th, 2006
It was the subject of Darfur that prompted me to revoke my policy of not discussing political matters on this blog. June 2nd of last year, I wrote:
Yesterday, after a 6 month silence on the issue, President Bush acknowledged that there is genocide taking place in the Darfur region of ...
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Thursday, April 6th, 2006
In the early days of the Christian church, believers in the Messiah were predominantly Jews. The conversion of Cornelius at the leading of Peter, and Paul's subsequent call to minister to the Gentiles sent shock-waves through this nascent movement.
Debates broke out about the wisdom and appropriateness of sharing this truth ...
Posted in Immigration, Jesus, Loving People, Politics | 14 Comments »
Thursday, April 6th, 2006
What does it mean, to you, to love kindness?
What is kindness? How do you love it?
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
I'm being asked frequently why I signed the statement along with 85 other religious leaders in America. I thought a lot about this leading up to offering my signature and in the two months since then.
To me, the answer is simple: I believe it is what Jesus would have me ...
Posted in Jesus, Loving People, Social Conscience | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
In reading Taylor Branch's masterful account of the early civil-rights years, Parting the Waters, one story has stuck with me. Vernon Johns, the controversial predecessor to Martin Luther King at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, was invited to speak at a bi-racial gathering of preachers.
When Johns got up to ...
Posted in Jesus, Loving People, Scandal, Social Conscience, Theology | 17 Comments »
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
(For what it is worth, this is the sermon that I preached this morning. In light of some of the press that the Church of Christ has received this week, I thought it was timely. I usually post this solely on my sermon blog. However, I am considering moving it ...
Posted in Church, Loving People, Preaching, Scandal, Social Conscience | 18 Comments »
Monday, March 27th, 2006
For the first time in memory I do not have a team in the Final Four.
I have had the stomach flu three times in my adult life. Each of those have been since I moved to the pulpit. Each time has occured late on a Saturday night, keeping me from ...
Posted in Asides, Church, Loving People | 6 Comments »