Geoffrey Holsclaw
Why Still So Tired? For all the weary and over-burdened, we were told that if we followed Jesus then his “yoke would be easy and his burden would be light” (Matt. 11:28-30). But often times we don’t feel that way. We haven’t found that kind of rest in Jesus. We feel still feel disconnected, tired, […]
For the poor you will always have with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish: but you will not always have me. (Mark 14:7) From crude realism to hopeless resignation, this quote from Jesus is confusing at best and disheartening at worst. What? So poverty and inequality are just a fact […]
The book of Revelation is nothing less than the Revelation of Jesus, the Lamb that was Slain but Raised Again. The lesser things it is NOT primarily about: The of the end of the world. The identity of the anti-christ. The timeline of saints departure. Hear this from Eugene Peterson, commenting on Rev. 22: 8-9, […]
The one of the things, several years ago, that concerned me about the Emerging Church Conversation was that for all its concern for the body (exhibited in holistic medicine, organic food, and even body prayer), I saw a gaping exclusion of, dare I say, the literal ministry of healing prayer (not of just emotional healing) […]