This week Professor Sweet begins with the Hebrew word Amen. 

What are the Greek and Hebrew words every Christian should know? Join Professor Sweet for this season of Napkin Scribbles as we take a multilingual look at the language of our faith.  

The totality of Christ's life was a gesture to God's Kingdom, and in that kingdom, sex and the sacred met. Our Christly gestures are the integrity of each of us being who God made us to be.

Our first kiss is one that we don't remember; it is the breath of life from God. Our second kiss needs to be passed on to others and our third kiss is to empower. We are to kiss and tell, not tell and kiss.

Bedhead is not a good first impression for the church. The hair tells the story; it's serious business. Our Crown of Glory is the first impression and signifies agape love.

A shapely bride, the church is a bringing together of opposites into relationship stability and motion, substance, and spirit, the sufferings and splendor of life. This is the source of creativity, whence all innovation and generativity come.

Humor is the best evidence that the brain is functioning at full throttle. Jesus used humor to sharpen the dull edges and tangled angles of theology. The paradox of a life of living and dying is to laugh about it.

Grow a Back-bone! It takes courage to reach high and bend low with confidence and humility. Back-bones require the initiative, integrity, and industry to lose the wraps that bind people up and tie people down in life.

A full-pack ripped-abs church is a body of Christ that exercises the muscle groups. The core muscles of virtues are strengthened with Jesus by dropping down and washing feet.

To show some skin is to reveal that you are comfortable in your skin. You have skin in the game that tells everything warts, scars, and all—a graceful and authentic skin, filled with and true to the Jesus style.