Oct 31, 2017 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Jesus could come tonight, folks. Keep those porch lights on, those jack-o-lanterns lit, and welcome the children (and your neighbors) as Jesus would. In America, this is unfortunately just about the only hour or so left anymore where anyone might come...
Oct 5, 2017 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Listen up. Jesus is returning soon. I mean it. He's coming back—right now—anywhere in the world the Lord's Supper or Communion or the Eucharist or the Divine Liturgy is celebrated…and that is happening almost constantly in all sorts of churches in all...
Aug 11, 2017 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
“Woe to you, leaders of the church, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to." Matthew 23:13 Just a reminder that erecting barriers to grace—closing...
Aug 9, 2017 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
It's darkly amusing to watch people fret over Kim Jong-un or Donald Trump possessing nuclear arsenals when it is a form of madness and sheer folly for *any* person or government to possess even one device. Rationalizations about nuclear weapons—including all the...
May 29, 2017 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Jesus is first the Word of God in the vivid experience of those who knew him in flesh and blood: walking the streets of Capernaum and the alleyways of Jerusalem, fishing at dawn on Galilee, dining in Bethany, or reading the scroll of Isaiah at the synagogue in...
Apr 11, 2017 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Hank Hanegraaff's embrace of Eastern Christianity has, by the looks of my Facebook feed, revealed how sad and pathetic our church divisions are during this sacred week of reentering the mysteries that save the world (in one of those rare years when East and West...
