The dark clouds cast a cool shade around Jacob’s Well. Jesus and his boys were tired from the walk into Samaria.
Jesus: Yo, Mattie! You and Johnny take da boys inda town and get us some food, hey. No linguini with white clam sauce this time! None. I wanta da spaghetti wid da meata balls…and some [...]
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Jesus had to go through Samaria. At the sixth hour, tired and thirsty from his travels, Jesus sat down at Jacob’s Well near Sychar.
A Samaritan woman came to draw water and seeing Jesus asked, “Sir, will you give me a drink?”
Startled, Jesus said, “How is it that you, a Samaritan, ask me, a Jew, for a [...]
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“And it was night.”
Doesn’t that sound like a bolt out of the Hemingway blue? A terse, stark declaration; a burst of this-ness.
Hemingway could have written it. But it was actually written by John the Apostle.
John 13:10– “As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.”
John is doing more than [...]
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Barbara Brown Taylor is honest. She can be trusted.
I laughed at her wit, I groaned with her struggles, and I felt expectant about her and my future.
In Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, she writes, “As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they [...]
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My friend and former colleague in ministry, Mark Riddle, has written a timely and fascinating book about local church youth ministry. Inside the Mind of Youth Pastors: A Church Leaders Guide to Staffing and Leading Youth Pastors (Zondervan/Youth Specialties) is a bluntly honest and extremely helpful guide into the often turbulent waters of student ministry.
The [...]
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I am stunned that some Christians still defend a sound byte gospel. You know, the 4 steps, the “bridge over troubled waters” packaged presentation. Shrimpy little things. The wondrous, thunderous, mind-boggling, heart-stopping gospel of the Bible and of Jesus himself is horribly reduced to bumper sticker phrases.
With what other literature or great story do we [...]
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