Recently, I sat down with Edward Fudge (him in front of his computer in Katy, TX, and me in front of mine in Redwood City, CA) to discuss his forthcoming book, “Hebrews: Ancient Encouragement For Believers Today” (Leafwood Publishers, 2009, softcover, 262 pages, $19.95). This is what Fudge had to say.
A neglected book
SP: Hebrews is [...]
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Interview with Edward Fudge
Posted in Bible, books, ministry, reading on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Cutting Room Floor
Posted in Bible, church, ministry, preaching on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For every sermon there are lots of notes, thoughts, ideas, and stories that are left on the cutting room floor, so to speak. Stuff that there’s either not time for or doesn’t fall within the sermon focus or function. But every now and then there’s something that is omitted during delivery of the sermon. Yesterday [...]
Fudge Takes on Hebrews
Posted in Bible, books, church, friends, pepperdine on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hebrews: Ancient Encouragement for Believers Today, by Edward Fudge (Leafwood Publishers, 262 pages, Expected Release: April/May 2009).
Mention the Book of Hebrews and many Christians start to yawn or even to nod. Mention commentaries, and they practically begin to snore. One would think, therefore, that a commentary on Hebrews would leave them out cold [...]
Permission To Be
Posted in Bible, Christmas, Rochelle, books, family, quotes, theology on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been attempting to pray the daily office with Thomas Merton’s book, A Book Of Hours. Rochelle gave it to me at Christmas. It didn’t take long for me to realize that my life in no way is arranged to pray the hours. So I’ve been doing what I can when I can.
This past Sunday [...]
Lord, Have Mercy
Posted in Bible, C.S. Lewis, books, church, grace, history, prayer, preaching, speaking, speech acts, spiritual formation, words on March 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As I’ve mentioned, I’m teaching a class on spiritual formation and spiritual disciplines. The class is going well, but as is the case whenever a group of people explore spiritual formation, there are points that stretch all of us. The stretching is always both painful and necessary. After all, theses practices are designed to aid [...]
A Powerful Footnote
Posted in C.S. Lewis, history, ministry, prayer, quotes, spiritual formation on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow night I continue a series I’ve been teaching called, The Sacred Way. For 8-weeks we are looking at some of the ancient spiritual disciplines. I call them “ancient” for two reasons: (1) They were all conceived a long time ago and (2) Most people in American Evangelical churches don’t practice them (out of ignorance [...]
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