Sitemap - 2024 - Scot’s Newsletter

Jesus and His Secret Message

Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)

Shining Prayer

Meanderings, 28 December 2024

Why This Way?

Two More Redemption Witnesses

Redemption's Son

Christ Candle

Redemption Song

Redemption Stories

Christmas Week

Advent Candle 4

Purify Our Conscience

Meanderings, 21 December 2024

I Love Words, he says

Two Redemption Witnesses

Tension Points in Christian Citizenship

If We Read the Bible Like Jesus 3

Jesus and Money

The Week Before Christmas Brings...

Advent Candle 3

Third Sunday of Advent

Meanderings, 14 December 2024

Don't Make Me Come Down There

A Common Life of Unity, Joy, and Peace

Political Discipleship with Miranda Zapor Cruz

2024 Book of the Year

An Advent Devotional

Advent, Book of the Year, and More

Advent Candle 2

Second Sunday of Advent

Meanderings, 7 December 2024

Company is Coming

The “Next” Phase of Jesus Studies

Be Careful What You Fight For

Strongmen

If We Read the Bible Like Jesus 2

This Week, and a Glimpse at Next Week

Advent Candle 1

Almighty God, Give Us Grace

Meanderings, 30 November 2024

Skipping Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Prayer

The Prophets and (Progressive) Orthodoxy

If We Read the Bible Like Jesus 1

Old-Fashioned Evangelism?

Thanksgiving Week at Substack

Christ the King Sunday

Meanderings, 23 November 2024

AI Can't Preach

Good Things about the God of Grace

Following Jesus: One Path Usually Neglected

"Evangelism: The Old-Fashioned Way"?

Confronting Systemic Cultural Sexism

The Line from Wheaton to Trump

Following Jesus ... and other topics!

The Protestant Collect

Meanderings, 16 November 2024

Start with Gratitude

How Did Jesus Read the Bible?

When It’s Time to Confront Sexism in a Church or Organization

Need to Know

Why Did the Election Turn Out as it Did?

Election, What Men Need to Know, and More

O God, whose blessed Son

Meanderings, 9 November 2024

What Matters...and What Doesn't

The Invisible Jesus Disrupts

Confronting Sexism in Christian Leadership

“We Were All Wrong”

Countering Christian Nationalism

What to Discuss During Election Week?

Prayer for the Week

Meanderings, 2 November 2024

Sometimes, We Just Need to be Sick

Just, But Not for All

Benevolent Sexism

Thank You, Sydney Anglicans

Jesus is Our Counternarrative

With Jesus as our Counternarrative

Opening His Eyes

Meanderings, 26 October 2024

The Shrinking Attention Span...and Why it Matters

Naming it What it is

A Surprising Form of "Conversion"

Politics, Power, and Perpetuating Sexism

Samuel Perry, Religion for Realists

A Question (or more)

The Mother of Two Apprentices

Meanderings, 19 October 2024

The Middle Matters

The Cohort in Houston

The Price Women Pay

Three Faces of Holiness

Whence Christian Nationalism?

On the Road Again

Energetic Word

Meanderings, 12 October 2024

Pastors and Politics

Her Aversion to Christian Language

Sexism and Church History

Strange Worship

Who Are These People?

Teaching in Houston

More Ready Than We

Meanderings, 5 October 2024

Leadership and Talents

First Things First

Prophets and Social Justice

Covenant Theology and Sexual Ethics 3

What Are They Deconstructing?

Changing the Question

O God, You Declare

Meanderings, 28 September 2024

Not Every Idol is a Statue

Covenant Theology and Sexual Ethics 2

De-Polarizing Ourselves

Confession of a Church Snob

Covenant Theology and Sexual Ethics

A Fresh New Week at Substack

Grant us, Lord

Meanderings, 21 September 2024

Growing Up Pastors

Progressive Evangelical Women

A Call Without Confusion

Defining Those Terms

Rachel, We Miss You

Rachel Evans, Terms, a Call, and More

O God, Because Without You

Meanderings, 14 September 2024

Wrap Around Families

God Rules by God's Rules

A Theology of Antisexism

The Prophets for the Progressives

Women with a Generous Evangelical Orthodoxy

Thank You

Grant Us, O Lord to Trust in You

Meanderings, 7 September 2024

The Way Love Leads

From Observer to Participant

Holding My Breath

Flipping their Vote

Re-Thinking Stupidity

Labor Day and Beyond

Increase in Us

Meanderings, 31 August 2024

Can God Trust Us? (Mike Glenn)

Praying to the God of Grace

Sexism: Naming the Problem

She Sabbaths

Telling Their Stories

New Voices

That Your Church

Meanderings, 24 August 2024

Knowing Your Yes (Mike Glenn)

Matthew Avery Sutton’s New Definition of “Evangelicalism”

Christianity's Estranged Pioneers

Looking Back

What’s a Christian Candidate?

Gonna Be a Good Week

You Have Given

Meanderings, 17 August 2024

What Do We Expect?

What Paul Learned on Mission

When the Eyes of a Scholar Blur

A Christian Tension Point

Word for the Day: Pneumaformity

A New Word, Another New Book

Gospel for Today

Meanderings, 10 August 2024

Falling In Love Again (Mike Glenn)

Our Common Life

Creative and Productive Tensions

The "Mainline" and the "Evangelical"

Becoming More Narcissist Resistant

Creative and Productive Tensions

Continual Mercy

Meanderings, 3 August 2024

How Pastors Can Help their Churches During an Election Year

Redemptive Peace Households

Narcissistic Systems: Perpetrators, their Protectors, and their Prey

A Contest Between Different Kinds of Christians

Narcissistic Systems: Perpetrators, their Protectors, and their Prey

Bunnies and Balloons

God, the Protector

Meanderings, 27 July 2024

Sanctuary (Mike Glenn)

Both Lawyers Reveled

Radical Acceptance

Status Claims in the Church

The Most Significant Paul Book of 2024

As We Await the Paris Olympics...

Fountain of Wisdom

Meanderings, 20 July 2024

Upside Down Leadership (Mike Glenn)

John, Baptism, and the Temple

Confronting Sexism in the Church

What Makes a Person Vulnerable to a Narcissist?

A Pentecostal Moment

For Us, This Week

Mercifully Receive

Meanderings, 13 July 2024

The Impact of a Narcissistic Personality Style

More than the Health of a Candidate

Biographies Are Not All the Same

Church Divisions

Church divisions and a President's Health

Today's Gospel

Meanderings, 6 July 2024

When I Took the Flags Out of the Sanctuary (Mike Glenn)

July 4 Readings

Student Mission Movement

The Cycle of a Relationship with a Narcissist

John Was a Big Deal Until...

He Was Remarkable Until...

God, You Have Built Your Church

Meanderings, 29 June 2024

Thinking Like a Missionary (Mike Glenn)

Divorce leading to Remarriage in the Early Church

“If our religious men cannot live together in peace…”

Detecting a Relationship with a Narcissist

The American Bible

This Week's Substack

O Lord, Make Us Have Perpetual Love

Meanderings, 22 June 2024

My Dad Wasn't Normal (Mike Glenn)

I, Tertius

Freedom Day, Juneteenth

Beware the Bibliocrat

15 Marks of a Narcissist

Summer Themes at Substack

Reading for Today: New Creation!

Meanderings, 15 June 2024

Discipleship as Imitation, by Mike Glenn

Did God Go West?

Giving the Church

But, Love Your Enemy?

Church Hurt and The Devotion Problem (Kelly Edmiston)

Thinking Through Our Week

Prayer for Your Week

Meanderings, 8 June 2024

The Need for Broken Hearted Pastors (Mike Glenn)

The Kingdom, the Power, and America

Essential Workers: Everywhere and Nowhere

The Power of Love “with Teeth”

Join Us for a Book Discussion

The Power of Example

What the World Needs Now

Second Sunday after Pentecost

Meanderings, 1 June 2024

Churches are a lot like Restaurants (Mike Glenn)

Roman Catholicism Comes to America (in waves and waves)

Candida Moss and "God's Ghostwriters"

Are Egalitarians Gender Blind? (Kelly Edmiston)

Memorial Day 2024

Always On Topic

Prayer of the Week

Meanderings, 25 May 2024

I Remember Summer (Mike Glenn)

Scripture’s View of Scripture

How Christian is Loving Your Enemy?

Invisible and Visible Institutions

Call It What It Is

What Happened?

Pentecost: Church and Personal

Meanderings, 18 May 2024

Stewards of Time (by Mike Glenn)

Love Begins in the Home

Four Decisions

Responding to the Numbers Craze with Discipleship

Turning Point in American History: Evangelicalism

Light in the Murkiness

Gospel for Today

Meanderings, 11 May 2024

The Woman Who Raised Me (by Mike Glenn)

Turning Point: America and Native Americans

The Other Path

Sacred Indignation

Sideways with Church Growth Movement

This Week at Substack

Prayer for the Week

Meanderings, 4 May 2024

Slow Reading

Church Growth, American Style

Religious Freedom Rocks

Kerygma 2024!

Facing a Loving God

Waiting for this Week's Posts?

I am the "vineyard"

Meanderings, 27 April 2024

What I Learned about Church Going to the Gym

What Does Orality Do For Us Today?

DMin at Houston Theological Seminary

Judaism: A Religion of Love

The Reading Life, Part 5

This Week at Tov Unleashed

The Good Shepherd

Meanderings 20 April 2024

Facing Your Giants

Heard and Performed, Not Read

Bigness in Churches is Idolatry

Solidarity

The Reading Life, Part 3

This Week

Prayer for the Week

Meanderings, 10 April 2024

Right-Sizing the Church (Mike Glenn)

A New Imagination for England

Church De-Sizing, Really?

From Complementarian to Egalitarian

The Reading Life, Part 2

The Reading Life, from Complementarian to Egalitarian, and More...

Almighty and Everlasting God

Meanderings, 6 April 2024

Wanted, by Mike Glenn

Turning Points... in American Church History: What are they?

The Bible's Model of Communication

The Origami Christ

The Reading Life, Part One

This Week

Easter Gospel: Christos Anesti!

A Saturday Unlike All Others

Meanderings, 30 March 2024

Easter Anyway

What Time Are We In?

What Difference Does It Make?

Did Jesus Actually Preach the Gospel?

What's Burnout?

Questions, Questions, and More Questions

Palm Sunday Gospel

Meanderings, 23 March 24

Easter Everyday

Life-Time, Death-Time

The Shadow Side of Salvation

Hearing vs. Reading

Forgiveness and the Moral Order

For Your Week's Reading

Almighty God, you alone

Meanderings, 16 March 2024

Taking Jesus Seriously

Apocalyptic

C.S. Lewis and G.B. Caird

Boundaries in the Church

Mission, Vision, Brand. Rinse and Repeat.

Mission Statements, Boundaries, and C.S. Lewis

Gracious Father...

Meanderings, 9 March 2024

Sanctuary

Salvation History: What Is It?

But, Is It True?

Tis the Season -- for fasting

Ah, That Church

The Church, Fasting, and More!

Gospel for Today

Meanderings, 2 March 2024

The Local Church and Racial Reconciliation

A Tax Collector and a Pharisee Go to the Temple

That Time

Deconstruction and Dystopia

Church Systems and Family Systems

Family Systems, Dystopias, Time, and a Parable

O God, Whose Glory It Is

Meanderings, 24 February 2024

Does it Work?

Two Sons, One Father, and Family Dynamics

The Other Side of the Apostle Paul

Doubts about God's Existence

Pastor's Pain, Pastor's Story

Pain, Story, the Other Side

First Sunday of Lent

Meanderings, 17 February 2024

The Sin of Wasting Time

One Man, One Woman, One Celebration

Ash Wednesday Prayer

Pastoral Care for the Doubting

Wounded Pastors and Friendships

Why Mike Winger is Wrong about Authenteō

Church Wounds, Doubting, and More

O God, Who Before the Passion

Meanderings, 10 February 2024

A Good Follower (as the former pastor)

The Arrogant Church

Do We Need a Fourth Quest?

A Divided Church

Kingdom Power for All

Divided Church, Fourth Quest, and More

Set Us Free, O God

Meanderings, 3 February 2024

When Your Pastor Retires (and stays)

Humans of Mercy

Preaching Romans From Here

The Gospels and Galen (the medical guy)

Readings Within Readings

Exploring New Books

Almighty and Everlasting God

Meanderings, 27 January 2024

One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Jesus, Parables, and Social Justice

Rejection Meets Rejection

Why the Bible Began?

WWPD?

This Week, At this Link

Give Us Grace, O Lord

Meanderings, 20 January 2024

Every Paul Makes a Timothy (Mike Glenn)

Did Paul "Write" the Pastorals?

The "Opponents" in the Pastorals

Establishing the Circle

ML King's "I Have a Dream"

Coming This Week

Almighty God, Whose Son...

Meanderings, 13 January 2024

The Secularization of Pastoral Leadership

Three Important Statements about Revelation

How Do We Read the Bible?

Leaders Lead the Way about Politics

“Oh, Be Careful Little…”

This Week

Father in Heaven

Meanderings, 6 January 2023

Every New Year Needs a Good Funeral

The Magic of Emotions

The Prophet and the…

Look Elsewhere

A New Year's Day Prayer for Peace