I first encountered the name Dietrich Bonhoeffer when I was in high school. Our teacher, Jim Martin, made us read passages out of Bonhoeffer for a class we were taking. …
Hey friends... Okay, so it's been absolutely BANANAS in the Arndt household. We're in the middle of trying to buy a house. Enough said. In the next couple weeks I…
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…
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