by Larry Wilson | Feb 27, 2008 | Opinion
Midway through the Sermon on the Mount there is the passage from Matthew 6:25, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear.” Just before is scripture that calls us to...
by Larry Wilson | Dec 20, 2007 | Opinion
The Kingdom that Jesus taught is ultimate reality–reality that cannot be transgressed without dire consequences. “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23.)Because the Kingdom of God is ultimate reality, we have trouble living up to its standards, but...
by Larry Wilson | Oct 4, 2007 | Opinion
“Preachers,” said Lewis Perkins, “are what’s wrong with the world.” I confess I have very few close friends whose vocation is the same as mine. Growing up, I did not like many preachers. They seemed to me less than genuine. When I read...
by Larry Wilson | Jul 27, 2007 | Opinion
Jesus speaks community into existence and warns against all things that separate us from community. When Jesus is asked, “What is the greatest commandment?” he says: “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your...
by Larry Wilson | Jun 18, 2007 | Opinion
I heard Jim Wallis of Sojourners Magazine say years ago that one out of every seven verses in the Bible spoke to the proper use of money. If one-seventh of the Bible tells us how to dispose of our wealth, why then does the church that claims priority of Scripture so...
