Category / Biblical Meditations / Frontier Stories
Personal Essays from the Gospel Frontier
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![The Supper at Emmaus, Hendrick Terbrugghen]()
The Son of Man Came Eating and Drinking
Jesus centered hospitality in both his practice and his preaching.
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![Abraham and the Three Angels. James Tissot 1836-1902 thejewishmuseum.org]()
Hospitality and Resurrection
The act of hospitality in the life of Abraham, Lot, the widow of Zarephath, and the Shunammite woman led to resurrection and escape from wrath. Is practicing hospitality pointing to the coming kingdom of God?
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![Moses chooses seventy elders, painting by Jacob de Wit. City Archives, Amsterdam.]()
Invisible Barriers and the Hospitality of God
We often think of hospitality as a personality trait or an individual gift—a lovely but inessential thing. But could it be that hospitality is at the core of what it means to follow Jesus?
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Little India, the FBI, and Machine Gun
In the mid to late aughts, I worked at a little community center and book store in the heart of Chicago’s Little India. One day, I had a visitor whose request made for a stressful workday that involved the FBI and a machine gun.
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