And the Good News Is: http://t.co/0FdNyEa
— Willliam Boyd Grove (@wboydgrove) September 10, 2011
This is a link that Bishop Grove put out there on twitter. I guess we should just be parting happily with our money……
How does this factor into rendering unto Ceasar what is Ceasar’s?
On occassion I watch the Red Green Show. I really get a kick out of the montone prayer that they pray. One part is sonething along the lines of, “I’m a man and I can change if I have to.” When it comes to God’s will beiong done humanity often seems to have that monotone sighing…
On my blog, I’ve shared some thoughts and reflections of September 11, 2001, that day ten years ago when Muslim terrorists flew airplanes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center complex and into the Pentagon. The post is called “9/11, American Patriotism, and the Kingdom of God.” In many ways, our reactions to…
My name is Geoff Smith. I accidentally helped start the Under Christ’s Archy project. I’m currently a teacher of math, rhetoric, and Bible at a small Christian high school. As you can see in my profile, I am scheduled to be married on October 15, 2011. I hope to contribute a to this project in…
by Henry Neufeld, Energion Publisher We rolled out a new theme over the weekend. More about that in a few paragraphs … A couple of months ago I sent out an e-mail to a few of the people whose advice I count on regarding the slogan we use on the Energion Publications web site: Educate!…
This initial post is intended as a marker, a flag of sorts marking out where I am coming from. Living as a Christian, the “how do we live now?” question is a complex question and is so all-encompassing that any effort to address it as a whole is borderline foolishness. My intent is to break…
Not sure this fits here but given the prominence of Pat Robertson in the “Christian media” and in political discourse I thought this might be of interest….originally posted on my blog here. — Russell Moore wrote a great essay today, Christ, the Church, and Pat Robertson that was tragically made necessary because of yet another…
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I had to play with Twitter a bit to get the link. If anyone else has this problem, the linked article is at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/opinion/and-the-good-news-is.html?_r=1&src=tphttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/opinion/and-the-good-news-is.html?_r=1&src=tp.
Thanks, Henry!
As to “rendering unto Ceasar”: We have disconnected from what monetary units functioned for to begin with – “medium of exchange” – that means that what you do or have becomes represented by official measurement so that it can be conveniently exchanged for what others do or have OR better yet to gain friends in the world OR to do God’s work (redeeming the doing or having?).
In our world today, it isn’t doing the job that it was created for and our Ceasar has it on recall. Although I don’t think they are willing to admit that ;^)
I’m wondering if – we could begin actually exchanging our having and doing directly again if we couldn’t manage to reestablish the “flow” that isn’t happening with cash these days and win a recovery God’s way in the process. Just thinkin’….
You raise an interesting point. It is rather amazing how far we have gotten away from the original intended use, isn’t it?