Saturdays Are For Shalom

Gentrification and Real Renewal In the book I am currently reading Urban Ministry, I was challenged to rethink my view on gentrification.  I had always looked at gentrification as a postive thing, even an evidence of renewal taking place in some small measure.  The restoration of homes into more comfortable and esthetically pleasing dwellings has [...]

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Saturdays Are For Shalom Part 2

I took this picture while on a date with Jill a couple weeks ago (not bad for a phone, huh?). We took it while walking through Valley Green along the Wissahickon Creek. The picture hardly does justice to the beauty of the sight. We were walking along and – POW – we see this rock. [...]

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Saturdays Are For Shalom

Long over due to get back on track. This week, Justin Taylor pointed me to this post from Christopher Wright.  In it, Wright shares a portion of his upcoming book, The God I Don’t Understand (Zondervan, January 2009). Here’s a portion of what he shared (it’s exciting): All that has enriched and honoured the life [...]

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Saturdays (and Mondays) Are For Shalom

OK, so I am bit late on this one.  I was away from the computer most of the day.  I was working to spread shalom in my home. This week I want to share a slice of shalom that has really encouraged me.  My wife, Jill, loves to garden but more than that, she loves [...]

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Saturdays Are For Shalom

Here’s a brief quote I read today in the Harvie Conn book I’m finishing up this week: Jesus, the anointed of the Spirit, enters as forerunner into the Age of the Spirit, and his life of prayer manifests [sic] this act of entering in.  He prays ‘through the Holy Spirit’ (Luke 10:21).  Prayer becomes God’s [...]

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Saturdays Are For Shalom

This week’s post is an article that points us to life in the Kingdom… In a recent article in Christianity Today, Al Hsu discusses the Apostle Paul’s greeting of “Grace and peace” and how a simple salutation points us toward a new society. I liked this quote in particular: So Paul said, “Grace and peace [...]

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Saturdays Are For Shalom

I want to start a new routine here on “Make All Things New” of posting each Saturday (Lord willing) on the topic of shalom (peace; universal flourishing). The plan is, starting today, to post a link, article, quote, idea, pictures, something that points us to the way things ought to be (and one day will [...]

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