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Relationship between gratitude and praise
Henry Knight clarifies the relationship between gratitude and praise by noting, “If gratitude is thankfulness to God for benefits received, praise could be defined as the acknowledgment of the excellency of God’s attributes, and most especially God’s holiness.” Christine PohlClick to TweetFrom the book “Living into Community” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*
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Epidemic of complaint
Part of the recent emphasis on gratitude or giving thanks is surely a response to the epidemic of complaint, envy, presumption, and dissatisfaction that undermines human relationships and plagues many communities. These forms of ingratitude are deadly: they kill community by chipping away at it until participants long to be just about anywhere else. While…
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Gratitude
Gratitude operates at several different levels: thanksgiving and praise to God, gratitude as a posture for life, and gratitude as a response to others for who they are or for what they have given to us. Christine PohlClick to TweetFrom the book “Living into Community” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*
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Building not the church
The building is not the Church, but it speaks of the character and reality of the Church in a profound and vital way. It helps to root the community in its faith, nurture its prophetic witness, and draw it to its destination. John IngeClick to TweetFrom the book “A Christian theology of place” Available on…
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Affected by culture
It was H. Richard Niebuhr who suggested in Christ and Culture that in our understanding of the faith we are more likely to be affected by our culture than we would sometimes like to allow. John IngeClick to TweetFrom the book “A Christian theology of place” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*
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Difference between healthy and disabilities
Jürgen Moltmann “There is no differntiation between the healthy and those with disabilities. For every human life has its limitations, vulnerabilities and weaknesses. We are born needy and we die helpless. It is only the ideals of health of a society of the strong which condemn a part of humanity for being ‘disabled’.” Thomas F…
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Accessible community
In her excellent book: Copious hosting: a theology of access for People with Disabilities, Jennie Weiss Block suggests that, of all places, the church should be a model of the accessible community, a point of entry into God’s love that is reflected both in thinking and in acting. For, as she puts it, “the Body…
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Joseph’s suffering
R.T. Kendall writes, ‘For Joseph, vindication on the spot might have done something for him in that moment; but it wouldn’t have done anything for the kingdom of God. When we are mistreated in any way, we must realise that our suffering has profound and vast implications for the greater kingdom of God. There are…