What a wonderful feast of wisdom and insight! Thank you! We have never wartched Ted Lasso but will try to figure out a way to do so! I appreciate your perspective on the Russell Moore book and the difficult days ahead for what we have known as Christianity. Prayers for your continued healing and recovery. God bless you and all that you do and share.
I rejoiced when I saw your inclusion of the trifecta wisdom from Madeleine L’Engle, Katharine Hayhoe, and Holly Berkeley Fletcher!!! But I realize as I write this that your wisdom, of course, needs acknowledgment! We are quadruple blessed by this August sampler at the Cottage! Thank you. Continued prayers for your recovery 🙏.
So simple and yet so profound. Thank you.
There's a book called "saved by allegiance alone".
The greek word for faith / belief is pistus.
The books author finds the word used in Maccabees in a way that can only be interpreted as allegiance.
If you substitute allegiance for faith/belief in most texts it makes perfect sense.
It was also revolutionary because it was expected to give your allegiance to Ceasar.
Reading the definition of believe in this article was helpful and reminded me of the allegiance book.
I used to be in a church which was all about right beliefs - the right ones being theirs.
There is this gem on their statements of beliefs "the bible is innerant in the original manuscripts". Sound authorative, but is meaningless.
Of course we don't have these originals and if you read "Mary the Tower" it's clear some of the earliest copies were adjusted later.
What a wonderful feast of wisdom and insight! Thank you! We have never wartched Ted Lasso but will try to figure out a way to do so! I appreciate your perspective on the Russell Moore book and the difficult days ahead for what we have known as Christianity. Prayers for your continued healing and recovery. God bless you and all that you do and share.
I rejoiced when I saw your inclusion of the trifecta wisdom from Madeleine L’Engle, Katharine Hayhoe, and Holly Berkeley Fletcher!!! But I realize as I write this that your wisdom, of course, needs acknowledgment! We are quadruple blessed by this August sampler at the Cottage! Thank you. Continued prayers for your recovery 🙏.
Love the Ted Lasso lesson on belief. So profound. My favorite character is Higgins. So joyful, so unexpected, so comfortable in his own skin.
Thank you! So much in this one post combined with Holly’s criticism of Russell Moore’s book!