HeyJaredThe Contemplative Charismatic
A contemplative charismatic bishop—both mystic & missionary—exploring Theo-semiotics, grace and wonder.
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Yes, We Have Issues (opens the original)
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One of the things that happens when you begin reading Scripture semiotically is that you have to slow down. I think that is one of the gifts of semiotics before we ever get around to defining what it actually is. We read familiar stories too quickly. Why? Well, because they are familiar. We know where they are going, we know how they end, we have heard the sermon and for preachers… we have probably preached the sermon. If we aren’t careful we hurry through the details on our way to the part we a
They Were Still Lepers (opens the original)
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Every great story has a PROTAGONIST & an ANTAGONIST. A hero and a villain. Most of the time the hero is the cool one… even if he’s the underdog, he usually does it in a REALLY COOL way. He “wears” the underdog awkwardness well.And somehow, subtly, we have built an image of the people we think can really make a difference. We have a stereotype of what a “HERO” should look like. People with Hollywood-style looks, money, position, or power. Sometimes we even go so far as to filter Bible stories thr
He Loves Being FIRST (opens the original)
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There are people in Scripture we know almost nothing about, and yet sometimes the Holy Spirit gives us one sentence about them that seems to tell us nearly everything we need to know. These one-sentence characters have kept preachers and authors busy for decades. Helping us build sermons and sometimes entire books out of the tantalizingly few details Scripture gives us. Benaiah went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion. Shamgar killed six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. Jabez app
The Altars We Cannot Borrow (opens the original)
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“But the king replied to Araunah, ‘No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.’”—2 Samuel 24:24If you’ve spent much time in church, you’ve probably heard these words preached in the context of an offering for a building campaign, a missions project, or some other worthy cause. David’s declaration has become almost synonymous with sacrificial giving, and rightly so. Worship that costs us nothing has always been suspect, and foll
Grace Was Already Climbing (opens the original)
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A Theo-semiotic reading of Abraham, Isaac, and the God whose provision often begins long before we recognize our need.There are passages of Scripture that seem to grow larger every time I return to them. I have read the account of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22 more times than I could possibly count, yet over the past few weeks I have found myself lingering there again, reading more slowly, paying attention to details I had hurried past before. That has become one of the unexpected gifts of The
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