Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2024

‌I just finished reading The Infinite Game, a book by Simon Sinek. He says many people, companies, and countries are playing the wrong game; they’re serving short-term goals instead of infinite ones. There’s some worth to the book, but it’s not without flaws. One of its weaknesses is in what he calls “ethical fading.” This is where you have a gradual compromise of ethical standards in, say, what a corporation allows in its business practices. The problem is he assumes an ethical standard without ever defining it or establishing any foundation for ethics. For us, as disciples of Jesus, He is the foundation of all ethics and all Truth. In short, ethics is derived from the Word of God….

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Eighth Sunday after Trinity

The Speaker of the House visited Taiwan last week. Her visit threatened to disrupt America’s official policy on Taiwan: strategic ambiguity. I think that’s what we have going on in our own lives, especially as Christianity intersects desire: strategic ambiguity. We’re partially but not fully committed to being disciples of Jesus. Christianity is good, but let’s not take it too far.

But God demands an end to our ambiguity. “Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God” [James 4.4]….

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