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This fall at Bloom we're wrestling with the Sermon on the Mount... Jesus' classic articulation of what life among those who have been captured and conditioned by the now-available 'Kingdom…

At Bloom this weekend I'm preaching on Mt 5:27ff., Jesus' classic teaching on the disordered desire of the heart for the sexual "other" that lies at the heart of adultery... …

I have never met anyone from this group.  I know nothing about them, but this picture to me said it all.  "Judaism your way."  My first reaction was, "Really?"  My…

In one particularly memorable passage, Jesus compared the Pharisees to "unmarked graves, which people walk over without knowing it."  Or in another place he said, "You are like whitewashed tombs,…

Well, our Sermon on the Mount series began last night at Bloom (the podcast should be up either later today or sometime tomorrow, so those of you that are interested…

Well, the long-awaited Sermon on the Mount series begins tomorrow night at Bloom, and I'm still in thick of wrestling with those beautiful and cryptic opening verses - the so-called…

This past Sunday at Bloom, working as we are through the book of Matthew, we ran into this text: 23Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good…

The writer of Hebrews says, "Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us worship God acceptably..." (12:28), making clear that the kingdom is not something…

1 When you have entered the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it, 2 take some…

This past week, novelist Anne Rice decided to quit Christianity.  Rice, author of the best-selling Interview with a Vampire, along with several recent works which took a decidedly religious tone…