Oct 12, 2009
In the midst of all the packing and moving to the new house, blogging will be sparse for the next little while.
Wishing you a wonderful thanksgiving with your family and friends. Hopefully my next post will be from the new place!!
Let me leave you with a thanksgiving quote from the good bishop:
We are called to thanksgiving, where we stand at last in the truly human relationship to the creator and the world; and we are called to thanksliving, where we behave as the free subjects of the true king, and owe the powers nothing at all. There is now only one Power we are to follow, and that Power has a human face, a face once crowned with thorns.
N.T. Wright, Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship, p.21
Sep 7, 2009
Michael Bird 報告他和Craig Keener 編緝的New Covenant Commentary 終於出爐!首兩本正是兩位編緝的作品:
Colossians and Philemon
By Michael Bird
Romans
By Craig S. Keener
我之前已提過這系列,可參這裡的介紹。
[HT: Euangelion]
Oct 15, 2008
感謝的人生
歌羅西書3:12-17
不錯,保羅挑戰當時整個羅馬帝國的運作方式,但他的方式卻是出奇地和我們想象的方法截然不同!他的起步點是先告訴你,耶穌是誰?
而這點正正是我們必須留心的。當想到對抗生活中的轄制力量,我們不會自然的想到要將注意力集中在「耶穌是誰」之上。但對保羅來說,就是這個方法。而事實上,這是唯一的方法。當我們真正了解耶穌究竟是誰,它能夠改變我們怎樣看待這個世界、並我們的生活方式。我們會發現原來我們被神邀請加入一個完全不同的故事之中,對抗著這世界無所不用其極的希望引你進入的那另一個故事。
你要知道,如果我要將這篇感恩節的講章,變為向你們,為教會擴堂所作的呼籲;又或者是很快就到的Operation Christmas Child聖誕鞋盒的捐助,又或者是呼籲你為明年的差傳預算、教會的整體預算而奉獻,是很容易的。但不是啊!這不是我的意思…
講道錄音:
[audio:sermons/colossians/Col_3_12-17.mp3]
延伸閱讀:
- 當然,要說帝國、權勢、歌羅西書,不能不看的是Brian Walsh 和Sylvia Keesmaat 的Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire。
- ThanksLiving 一詞是從Wright的小書Following Jesus, p.21 而來(那正是討論歌羅西書的一章)。