Tuesday, March 18, 2008 by Big Kahuna.

I can’t help being struck this week as we move towards a celebration of Easter with the parallels between Moses and the Exodus on the one hand and Jesus and the work of the cross on the other. It was clearly something Paul saw and reflected on often as he returned to the image of slavery and bondage so many times in his writings to the churches. Read the rest of this entry »

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Monday, March 17, 2008 by Big Kahuna.

When the people cry out to save them in the book of Exodus, we are told “God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.” That is all comforting that God hears and sees, remembers and knows. Read the rest of this entry »

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Thursday, March 13, 2008 by Big Kahuna.

In sorting through some of this I am struck by the reality that sometimes it requires what I would say is a certain amount of holy discontent with the way things are in my life to cause me to change. I like to think I am someone who is okay with change but what I see is that there are some things in my life that I won’t change until the pain of not changing becomes acute enough for me to get past the inertia of complacency. Read the rest of this entry »

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Monday, March 10, 2008 by Big Kahuna.

When I read the story of the raising of Lazarus (John 11) I am always astounded that John tells us first that Jesus truly loved Martha, Mary and their brother and begins his next sentence with: so when he heard Lazarus was sick he stayed where he was two more days. It seems completely ridiculous to say he loved them all so he didn’t show up when they really needed Him. The reality is that this fits more with my life experience of God. Read the rest of this entry »

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Saturday, March 8, 2008 by Big Kahuna.

When hard things come, we all become like the disciples in John 9 when they see a man born blind, we look for answers to the question “Why?” We like things to have specific causes not general ones. The disciples asked who sinned and ventured guesses of either his parents or the man himself. Too many Christians think exactly like this, something is wrong there must be blame to affix. If I can figure out why something isn’t what is should be in someone else’s life then I don’t have to think any more about it and my world doesn’t have to make room for it and I can give myself a pass on stepping into the situation in any way. Read the rest of this entry »

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Friday, March 7, 2008 by Big Kahuna.

As a Christian I believe in a fallen world on a theological level but at a personal level it is often painfully apparent that what I really believe in is something else. Theologically I am clear that “the fall” means that things aren’t the way they are intended to be and that they won’t ever be until the kingdom of God is established. It is one thing to know that and quite another thing to live it. Read the rest of this entry »

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