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What Language Shall I Borrow: Reflections on Faith episodes
- Does God periodically drop down one more bit of wisdom spelling out how to play well with others?
If I were asked what we human beings need, I’d venture to guess that it would look more like help than like advice.
10 min - God’s people are on trial.
“What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
11 min - The world to come doesn’t operate by the rules of this world.
There is, in all of us, some homing instinct--some sense that we’re on a journey.
12 min - The world feels broken, and we are worried.
When we trust God’s providential hand, anxiety becomes a useful caution rather than a pathology.
10 min - Someone has said that our time is one of “bare, ruined altars.”
And yet, it’s also a time when people are starving for some Word from the Lord.
12 min - There are some questions for which we want answers that science really can’t touch.
Faith is a way of “knowing.”
11 min - What makes a people great?
Jesus intends to replace his disciples’ “love of power with the power of love.”
12 min - Being a Christian is not a solo performance.
Jesus Christ functions like the director of an ensemble.
10 min - Every period of history provokes new insecurities.
God has promised: “I will never leave you or forsake you.”
9 min - The letter of James asks, “Are any among you sick?”
“They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.”
12 min
About What Language Shall I Borrow: Reflections on Faith
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These are challenging times for the church, and especially for those responsible for a congregation. Ronald P. Byars, a former pastor, teacher, and now pew-sitter, reflects on how the varied “languages” of faith most effectively reach the faithful and the unfaithful in times both unfavorable and favorable.
Byars served as pastor of congregations in Fremont, Allen Park, Okemos, and Birmingham, Michigan; and in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1999 he joined the faculty of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. He continues to write in retirement, living now in Lexington.