My coaching assignment from three weeks ago was to reflect on what I'd like people to say about me when I die. My report on that reflection is due today, and frankly, though I've put a good bit of time into thinking about it, I don't have it done. It's a funny question, more troublesome …
Impressions on a Good Friday
Fat Tuesday and Good Friday are both preludes. You'd think I must have chosen to give up blogging for Lent. Not one entry after Fat Tuesday. Nothing of the glorious Ash Wednesday experience, that annual marker of remembering that death is coming for all of us, that we are made of ashes and dust and …
Grace and Work
Peter Block, in The Answer to How is Yes, makes a simple pair of statements. "...it is never efficient or inexpensive to act on our values. There is no such thing as cheap grace." Chris Goldman attributes the theology of grace to Paul, pushing back against Paul's naysayers, asserting that without him, our understanding of …
In Secret
I'm plowing back through Matthew's account of the Sermon on the Mount. It never gets old. In Matthew 6, Jesus says (essentially) to be careful about what you do in public. Dallas Willard calls this this principle of secrecy. Pride is insidious, and even as we make a move to be generous or kind or …
Water: Exhaustive vs. Substantial
Water. What do I know of it? Do I know much? Is what I know enough to thought of as real knowledge? And what are the implications of me not knowing as much as can be known? Can a simple glass of water give me true knowledge about water's nature? It's an image that came …
JEFF BERRYMAN 