In honor of our Comeback Kids series, I want to post on that area of life in which comebacks are the most vivid and immediate: sports. Here are five of the most sensational comebacks I have seen. In some cases, they made me leap out of my seat for joy. In others, they made me Read the full article…
So we started The Comeback Kids yesterday. Along the way we discovered some common threads between Bruce Springsteen, PTL, and the prophet Haggai. Springsteen’s haunting “My City Of Ruins” describes so well a land and a people in desolation: So yesterday John Pavlovitz sang it, backed by Chris Macedo and the GS Band. It was Read the full article…
“ I think the story of how our new series “The Comeback Kids” came to “be” is an interesting one. After all, it’s not often that a church will do a series based on the Old Testament book of Haggai. Yet that’s what we’re doing. In the spring of 2010, I enrolled in a class Read the full article…
My most powerful times of prayer have not come when I was praying. Instead, they’ve come in the middle of counseling sessions. I’ve had a number of counseling situations arise which were obviously beyond my capabilities or wisdom. So with my eyes still open and with my voice still engaged in conversation, I entered into Read the full article…
My favorite verses in Scripture are those that describe the reality of the incarnation of God in Christ. The concept is such that human language is frankly inadequate to describe its power and beauty. Nevertheless, the New Testament authors do a remarkable job of scaling some literary and theological mountaintops. Here goes: John 1:1-2, 14: Read the full article…
