... Jesus that we would like to duck most are the ones in front of us, the ones about forgiving enemies. They are so difficult. Fred Craddock, a good teacher of New Testament and preaching, was teaching an undergraduate course in Oklahoma on the Gospels of Jesus. He was taking ... kind of love. Most of the New Testament has been written by the apostle Paul. Have you ever stopped to think of what a gross character he was before his conversion? The one who gave us the most of what we call the "word of God" in the New ...
... you, as you lead the congregation in a short refrain, all the better]. As he finished tying his sneakers and zipping his cardigan, Fred Rogers would sing, “Won’t you be…Won’t you be… Won’t you be my neighbor?” The concept of “neighborliness” has ... was to those who first heard it. To say that the parable of the Good Samaritan was shocking would be a gross understatement. Not only did those considered righteous come off look incredibly bad, as the Priest and the Levite completely abandon the ...
... it for several years, until one day an embarrassed girlfriend yanked it off my neck and ritualistically burned it, declaring it utterly "gross," disgusting and unfit for human haberdashery. Then there are the more serious gifts we appreciate receiving but could easily have acquired for ... and military casualties - a means of conducting war which has been "universally condemned since the Dark Ages." (Fred Ikle) 2. I am aware that the Christian realism of Reinhold Niebuhr and others insists that individuals are ...
