Artists always have a great way of bringing out theology through their art.
I always love art that makes me asks questions. That helps me wrestle with life and the tough stuff, the muck and the mire.
Art forces you to re-consider. To look at all of life differently.
Continue reading 22 songs about Heaven
I’m thinking about two boys, sound asleep last night.
One in his crib, the other in his toddler bed.
Both laying in their tummies, arms spread out, legs curled up underneath their tummies, with their butts sticking up in the air.
Last week we talked about the fine print — and a constitutional understanding of Scripture.
I’m really enjoying chewing on these ideas.
The whole idea brings me back to how Jesus had to keep clarifying the fine print, “You’ve heard it said before… but I say…”
Continue reading Understanding (more of) the fine print
I was asked to share a bit at my grandmother’s funeral Saturday morning. These are my notes:
Continue reading Getting to know Jesus better
…the call to transcend and include is a call that comes from the Holy Spirit, in whom all of us live, move and have our being. So we cannot escape. We can throw a temper tantrum. We can sit in the corner and pout. We can cower in the closet in fear. But then we hear music from another room playing faintly. Gradually, eventually, we are enticed and magnatized by the Spirit’s jazz, and we have to come out of our closet and dance, to join in the unending improvisation and lively rhythm of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
-Brian McLaren, A New Kind of Christianity
Clara Oleta (Glasco) Knotts, 91, went home to see her Lord and Savior face to face, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 in Dallas.
Oleta was born Jan. 28, 1919, in Pickton, Texas, to Clara and Jesse T. Glasco. She grew up and attended school in Pickton before moving to Dallas during World War II with her sister LaVerne. In Dallas she worked for Proctor and Gamble and then later joined her sister LaVerne at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. She met her husband, Deryl, in the spring of 1949 and the two were married Jan. 6, 1950 at The First United Methodist Church in Dallas. She always said the happiest moments of her life were those spent with her husband.
After their marriage, Deryl and Oleta moved to southeast Dallas where they both became active members of Pleasant Mound United Methodist Church for over four decades. Oleta was a firm believer in the hope and love of Jesus as her redeemer. She spent her life sharing those lessons with others, including teaching adult Sunday school classes for more than 40 years. When Oleta and Deryl later moved to east Dallas they quickly became active members of Eastridge Park Christian Church in Mesquite.
Oleta was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Deryl P. Knotts; her brother Noble Glasco; her sisters LaVerne Cheney and Myra Ragan; and her granddaughter Amy Elizabeth Blundell. She is survived by her two daughters, Margery and husband Fred Blundell of Mesquite and Beverly and husband Del Oyler of Sulphur Springs; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be held Friday from 6-8 p.m. at Grove Hill Funeral Home in Dallas. Services will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at Eastridge Park Christian Church in Mesquite with internment at Grove Hill Cemetery in Dallas. Pastor Dan Carroll will officiate. Memorials may be made to the Good Samaritan Fund at Eastridge Park Christian Church.
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Listen to an interview with my grandmother in 2007.
Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers this week. She will be greatly missed but I’m comforted that she’s now at peace with Granddad, Amy and other family members.