by Merv Budd | Aug 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
Carol was a persuasive woman. Her first-hand accounts of her visits overseas were stunningly and attractively descriptive. When she spoke to Jake about her adventures it captured his imagination. On cold winter days he could feel the warmth of the sun on his back as...
by Merv Budd | May 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
I am an evangelical. I am a minister of an evangelical church. I embrace evangelical theology. However, I am increasingly uncomfortable with the evangelical label. I am not referring to the narrow-minded, fundamentalist, right-leaning label given to us by the press; I...
by Merv Budd | Mar 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
Becoming Predictable As I was driving this morning, I watched the cars. We all stayed in our lanes, signaled turns, stopped together, moved together. It occurred to me that it all seemed so mundane, predictable, mandated. I wondered how it was that I became controlled...
by Merv Budd | Mar 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
I recently picked up Lee Beach’s book, The Church in Exile: Loving in Hope After Christendom, and found my imagination grabbed by an observation he made regarding the call to holiness for God’s people. He said this: Within the textual response to exile there...
by Merv Budd | Jan 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
I was at my bowling league the other night, bowling against one of the new teams that had joined the league this season. I noticed that one of the ladies on the other team brought her teenage daughter. So, between games, wanting to make the daughter feel comfortable...
