We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
Would you see any problems when people measure their self worth and value solely on the perspectives that others have of them?
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We may now find ourselves in a context of withdrawal concerning the failure of modernism and its assurances of certainty, optimism, and progress. Yet, postmodernism has not fared much better, even in its rightful sweeping away of the illusions of the modernist dream. Problem is, postmodernism often leaves us with the opposite pole of modernism; uncertainty, pessimism, and circularity, which results in disappointment. Embracing the dirge of these two modes of thinking, seeing, living, and being opens up the possibility of hope as expressed in God’s promises and their motion towards a future that has every reason to have an impact on the present.
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Jesus redeems Israel from exile and thereby opens the way for all people to come into community with God. There is no longer a holy city, a sanctified place, or a Promised Land as Jesus de-centralizes and re-centers God’s righteousness in himself. All that had come previously is focused in and on him so that those who follow in his footsteps will inherit the blessings of love, liberty, and justice.
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We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
How might Christian hope relate to ‘our’ world?
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YHWH calls us to listen, obey, discern, and trust, even when we don’t see. There are notions of ‘crisis’ all around that may push us to our limits. YHWH however is just, accountable, gracious, and reliable and therefore He merits our faith when circumstances appear bleak and frightening. YHWH will sustain us and as the world sometimes seems to be spinning completely out of natural, economic, social, or relational control, He is still there and this will not happen until the time that He is ready to bring closure to all things so that they may be ultimately renewed.
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We can easily wander away and lose patience with God. Deep renewal is crucial to pray for and to seek out during these times. Hearts, minds, and spirits are to be engaged and involved in a holistic manner if effective and realistic transformation is to take place. As we long and wait for the untranslatable splendor of face to face community with God, the lessons of time and patience will be of tremendous value.
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We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
What kind of place or space was the Garden of Eden?
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A dense fog thickens seeping through the cracks and crevices – pulsating, throbbing and finding its way into the contours of our lives. Diverse ways of seeing compel us to look again through the shifting vistas in the desire to see clearly once more. Timidly, new visions arrive and the ellipse of uncertainty is in place.
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After the catastrophes and rebellions, the re-shaping of Israel in the OT brought forth a hope for life in spite of ruin, much as it may do for us when we find ourselves in similar circumstances. YHWH acted in forceful and compelling ways on behalf of his people and they in turn begin to respond, though not yet fully liberated from exile. Hope, for them, consists of a political re-establishment of Davidic reign, the transcendent YHWH breaking in and coming as God of the whole world, and the ethical conviction that all would be made right as YHWH made his full blown presence known to humanity. The future, Israel reckons, is in the hands of the promising One, who will not fail to transform hope into reality for living today, tomorrow, and in the age to come. Yet, for us, this age to come has already arrived in the messiah and left in its wake traces of release, renewal, and redemption that configure hope in a fresh manner, giving it a trajectory that goes beyond promise to fulfillment.
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Jesus said, love your enemies. This remarkable command shows us something of what being a Christian is all about. While loving our enemies may not always be a possibility because of broken trust, abuse, betrayal, or oppression, a gracious extension of forgiveness is a necessary step. Love remains the target to aim for and then we must see how far we can come towards this in actuality. Love is to be a lens through which we act and through which we are seen and identified by others, including enemies.
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A compelling characteristic of true selves is that they are those who are summoned by the Other and others, yet recognize they’re irreplaceable. In God’s eyes, there is no one that can take their place.
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We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
Do you think there is too much pressure put on single people in churches to get married and if so, why?
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We are on a creational and redeeming Spirit-powered journey that is going somewhere and towards some-one. From Living Spirituality.
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Covenant, which connotes YHWH’s love, liberation, and identification of a people to be in community with Him, is a central theological motif in both the OT and the New. Grace, love, law, and holiness find their place in this broader category of covenant. YHWH both establishes (unilateral) and cuts (bilateral) covenant, where each requires an action by the giver and yet a necessary response on the behalf of the receiver. In covenant reception we find community, a mandate, and a call, which includes to love, to listen, and to do. These are three astonishing characteristics that YHWH’s people are to engage in and act upon in order to stand out and be known as those who are marked by covenant and its vision for the redemption of the world.
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