Earth is the Lord’s Day

So what’s your take on Earth Day?  I hope you don’t roll your eyes from too much ear-time with a.m. (angry man) radio.  Because the Earth is the Lord’s.  Creation is his first revelation, the first language he speaks to us.   And the church in the United States has been spiritually dull to his voice speaking through creation.  To the extent that we are, we’re spiritually dull.
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jesus freak, evangie, evangi-mergent, emergent, emerging, just don’t call me late for dinner

This question of identity and how we understand ours as Jesus followers is important.  It’s fraught for a reason. We’d like to think it’s all about convictions.  If I have X convictions then I’m an X. If my convictions are Y then I’m a Y.  As usual we think we’ve got more control over this than we do.
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