I had a strange three-way conversation on Feb 14 (Ash Wednesday) that was strange because all three of us thought about Lent in a different manner. One person had ashes on their forehead that they had received at an early morning worship service. This person was still trying to decide what to give up for …
For the past six months I’ve been working on a commentary (or sorts) on Ephesians. It’s finally complete at just under 40,000 words, and it’s available to anyone who is interested. Send me an email at “lasala [dot] jim [at sign] google [dot] com” and I’ll gladly send you a PDF of my sort-of-commentary. (I …
On the Feb 7 episode of the Russell Moore Show podcast, Russell interviewed poet and Yale Divinity School professor Christian Wiman. Among other things, Wiman talked about the book of Job and mentioned the Gospel of Mark in passing when reflecting on Job. That caught my ear because I too have noticed the similarity of …
There has been a slowly dawning awareness for me that the “bleak midwinter,” when “earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone” is fading into light. It was Monday, Jan 29, that this dawning awareness was fully formed in my mind. Coming home from my morning walk around the lake, I realized I had …
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