#1: Barry Steinman's Blog
05/30/07
Are our circumstances good or evil
Have you ever felt like ripping this passage out of the bible: "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." Romans 8:28 When horrible things are happening to me, how can that be good
05/16/07
Must Read New Book!
I have just finished one of the best books I have read this year.
"The Shack" is a fictional book that will change your relationship with the Heavenly Father.
Jesus demonstrated the power of stories to reach the human heart. This is an inspired story that will reach you in the depths of your being.
It is a book I will be reading again.
01/24/06
11:07:19 am, Categories: Why I House Church Why I House Church. Tired of staring at back of a head.
Staring at the back of someone's head for 90 minutes on a Sunday morning is not my idea of fun. I do not understand how staring at the back on someone's head has anything to do with fellowship.
05/29/05
Redeeming Power of Pain
I could have also titled this, "God's Bark Collar" or "God's Electric Fence". I recently came down with a case of Shingles. If you have never had it, you have no idea of the pain involved. Shingles is a reemergence of the Chicken Pox virus from childhood. It lies dormant in your nerves. When it reawakens, it travels down a nerve to the skin, and causes an outbreak rash on your skin. The pain from attacking the nerve can sometimes last a year after the rash has healed. This lasting pain is know as Postherpetic Neuralgia or PHN.
05/15/05
09:31:19 am, Categories: Inspiration Seeing People How God Sees Them
My normal tendency is to judge most of the people around me. I measure them by how they line up with my views of life. One night when I couldn't sleep, God dropped a vision in my heart for someone we knew. He showed me how he was opening up a great opportunity for them and how He would use them in that new situation.
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#2: Theology of Everyday Life
The "Unjust" Manager, Part 2
The NIV shrewdly renders "unjust" or "corrupt" as "shrewd" when it speaks of the manager. According to that translation, his response is clever or innovative from a business viewpoint.
Hmm. I don't think so. The Message, at least, has the honesty to call him a "crooked" manager. Much closer, this.
The "Unjust" Manager, Part 1
So what is it about the Ordinary that is the context for understanding God's coming rule? Why does Jesus persistently choose not to find God's ways inside religious contexts, instead finding them in the Ordinary?
The Parables and the Context of the Kingdom
The context of the kingdom is everyday life. You can tell this from the parables, though we seldom pay attention to them this way.
. . . And Everyday Life Intrudes
Of course the basic problem we all have with everyday life is that there is so much of it. My experiment in blogging is a prime example.
Deconstructing the context
An article about Rathergate in Friday's Wall Street Journal pointed out that the sea-change happening in journalism today is disturbing the traditional media's monopoly of news _context_ as well as content.
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