Jeremy John

The People's Prayer Breakfast: An Alternative to the National Prayer Breakfast

February 1, 2012

How does a Christian live in a power-mad world? A world that, from the perspective of the Beatitudes, is upside down. A world where the poor are getting poorer, and the rich are getting richer? Where natur...

The Occupation of the Lord’s Prayer

Jeremy John

December 2, 2011

General

The occupation is like Jesus' parable, where a king invites all of his privileged, first-tier guests to the wedding. But nobody came. So the king takes the invitation out to the streets, inviting all who w...

Jesus, Forgiving Economic Debts and Personal Sins

Jeremy John

November 14, 2011

General

In the Lord's prayer, our daily prayer, we pray, "forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." As we forgive our debtors. Forgive us our debts. In Aramaic, debt and sin are the same word, ḥōb. So...

Occupy Wall Street, the Church, and the Apocalypse

Jeremy John

November 5, 2011

General

How long have we been comfortable in the 1st world church? Nourishing ourselves on the warm broth of prayer and fellowship, resting and gathering strength, singing worship songs that seek an inward peace fr...