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The Doorkeeper's Delight: May 2009
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Monday, May 11, 2009. The Relief of Confession and the Joy of Cleansing. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. - I John 1:6-10. So on th...
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The Doorkeeper's Delight: Jesus, A Love That Waits, and the Hope of Resurrection
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Monday, March 8, 2010. Jesus, A Love That Waits, and the Hope of Resurrection. Reading through John 11 recently, the following passage stuck out at me (John 11:1-15):. Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. 3. So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6. And fo...
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The Doorkeeper's Delight: A Pitiful Answer
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Monday, October 26, 2009. This past weekend I ventured with my wife up to New York City. On Saturday as she hung out with her sister who had taken the bus down from Boston, I ventured around Lower Manhattan, taking in the sites, including Trinity Church, a historic Episcopal parish on the corner of Broadway and Wall Street. Web page for Trinity. Are you the church featured in the movie National Treasure? Is there any treasure? It's not only that answer is cheesy, which it is, but that it's man-focused, m...
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The Doorkeeper's Delight: Spinning the Generalities
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Comic strip drew a chuckle from me and has a theological hook, as it were, so I thought I'd include both:. How true. Confronted with God's holy law we try to justify ourselves by narrowly defining it to such an extent that we pass the test. Under divine inspiration, the Apostle Paul wrote about this very thing in his letter to the Romans:. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. God's l...
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The Doorkeeper's Delight: Taking Your Idol with You to the Grave
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Monday, November 2, 2009. Taking Your Idol with You to the Grave. From Sunday's Washington Post. Joe Kelly won't go as far as calling Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course a burial ground. But the 91-year-old track historian is quite sure that Willie Doyle, who rode Effendi to victory in the 1909 Preakness, isn't the only guy whose remains are mingled with the turf where the great Seabiscuit and War Admiral famously battled. Perhaps to some die-hard sports fans, having their remains scattered or entombed in yo...
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The Doorkeeper's Delight: November 2009
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Monday, November 30, 2009. I Ain't Been Nuttin' But Bad' or Why I Need the Gospel for Christmas. Im gettin nuttin for Christmas. Mommy and Daddy are mad. Im gettin nuttin for Christmas. Cuz I aint been nuttin but bad. So echoes the humorous chorus to a humorous song penned in the 1950s. In which a bratty boy rattles off in verse his various sins of commission coupled with his refrain that somebody snitched on me before issuing an admonition to fellow and would-be rotten brats:. Posted by Ken Shepherd.
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The Doorkeeper's Delight: Adoption: God's Work, Our Identity
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009. Adoption: God's Work, Our Identity. Last night as my wife and I hosted our small group for fellowship, something struck me about the passage preached. On Sunday, Galatians 4:1-7. The Lord brought to my attention that the action verbs in the passage were all performed by God (see portions in bold), with the result being the blessing of our identity - notice the verb "to be" in italics - as adopted children of God. Though he is the owner of everything,. Children, were enslaved.
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The Doorkeeper's Delight: February 2009
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009. This exchange between Jesus and the Pharisees from Mark's gospel account ( 10:1-12. Struck me earlier today:. And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? He answered them, “What did Moses command you? Notice that they answer "Moses allowed. The Pharisees answered Jesus b...
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The Doorkeeper's Delight: March 2009
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Saturday, March 7, 2009. Some Christianese We Should Rethink: 'Went Home to Be with the Lord'. On Thursday I attended a funeral that I felt did not adequately explain the h0pe of the resurrection. Today I thought I'd address some Christianese I think tends to subtly leave out the hope of our bodily resurrection when spoken in front of non-believers. Yet Paul wrote that our longing is NOT. So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self. 160;is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
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The Doorkeeper's Delight: Will Your Trivial Pursuits Profit You in the End?
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Thursday, June 3, 2010. Will Your Trivial Pursuits Profit You in the End? It came to my attention today that a co-creator of the Trivial Pursuit board game died recently at the age of 59. Chris Haney, a former Canadian journalist whose fascination with entertaining, barely useful tidbits of information led him to co-create the bestselling board game Trivial Pursuit, died May 31 at a Toronto hospital. He was 59. The bad news is that we've fallen far short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23), having lived ou...
