Bob Creson

The Meaning of Easter
Born in an obscure village, the child of a poor peasant woman. He grew up in still another obscure village, where he worked as a carpenter until he was thirty years old. Then for three years, he got on his feet, and he was an itinerant preacher. And he went about doing great things. He didn’t have much. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never owned a house. He never went to university. (Continued)

“Our problems are not small”, writes Scot McKnight in CT. “The most cursory glance at the newspaper will remind us of global crises like AIDS, local catastrophes of senseless violence, family failures, ecological threats, and church skirmishes. These problems resist easy solutions. They are robust—powerful, pervasive, and systemic. Do we have a gospel big enough for these problems?” (Continued)

Women and Literacy
Did you know that a 1% rise in womens literacy is 3 times more likely to reduce deaths in children than a 1% rise in the number of doctors. (Based upon a United Nations study of 46 countries)

“Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.” Without understanding the cultural context of this passage (Ruth 1:16) it’s impossible to fully appreciate the choice/decision/commitment it represents when Ruth makes the pledge to Naomi. At this point, Ruth is barren, no family, other than her mother-in-law, and is making a pledge to follow Naomi and her God into a foreign land. They have nothing and their future is bleak. God is the hero of the story, Naomi is the female Job, and the author, Carolyn Custis James, does a wonder full service for us in the book pointing out how loving God sometimes means breaking the conventional and accepted rules.

You gotta love the tag line, “Loving God Enough to Break All the Rules.”

Understanding the times in which we live; the courage to act; and the willingness to persevere.

“…one wonders what might happen if the Christian world became serious about exploring the full possibilities of [engaging on controversial issues and] applying nonviolent methods of seeking peace to unjust, violent situations around the world.” (Continued)

“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.”
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