Back from Montana and back to answering your question about the biblical basis for my understanding of “mission,” Elijah.
So far we’ve covered love, Eden, flood and fame, Abraham, Exodus through Ruth, Israel’s choice to replace God with a king, and the exiles. Now I’m doubling back to the book of Isaiah, written to the Southern Kingdom (Judah) before it was… 
Posts Tagged ‘Isaiah’
Answering Elijah (Part 8)
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“This is the kind of fast day I’m after:
to break the chains of injustice,
get rid of exploitation in the workplace,
free the oppressed,
cancel debts.
What I’m interested in seeing you do is:
sharing your food with the hungry,
inviting the homeless…
Help The Church. Vote For A Madman.
Today, I received the millionth e-mail letting me know that if So-and-so gets elected president of the United States dogs will start sleeping with cats, Christianity will crumble, and the end of the world will begin.
All this kind of rhetoric does is make me want to blog about nothing but church history from now until…
Trucks And Hell
I sat spellbound and immensely entertained as the balding preacher spasmed and spat the Gospel at us for over an hour. Most weeks I sat comfortably in church like any other carefree six year-old, playing with crayons or folding bulletins into paper airplanes. Our regular pastor lulled me to sleep under the canopy of my…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
