Herb Montgomery | December 9, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “Today, we must let the kernel of concern for some people's material needs found in the Hebrew prophets and the gospels evolve…
Herb Montgomery | August 26, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. I love the emphasis in the end of this passage. It’s not that “they” will be blessed. It’s that “you” will be…
Herb Montgomery | August 19, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. The stories this week point us to prioritizing the needs of people to thrive. Survival isn’t enough. We are worth more than…
Herb Montgomery | October 22, 2021 “It’s not enough to remove the basis for people being treated as less-than. We must also challenge the very systems the create less-thans and greater-thans. Jesus didn’t just give Bartimaeus his sight. He continued…
Herb Montgomery | September 24, 2021 “I want to be clear: I reject the common Evangelical doctrine of eternal torment, including a belief in a literal, eternally burning hell. If we take all the descriptions of a post-mortem ‘hell’ that…
Herb Montgomery | November 15, 2019 “One thread in Jewish tradition enlarged this hope and applied it not only to the Jewish people, but also to the rest of humanity with a much more universal end to all oppression, violence,…
by Herb Montgomery | November 8, 2019 “What is our relation, as followers of Jesus, to the marginalized of our day? To what degree are we marginalized in our own lives? Are we standing in solidarity with others who are…
Herb Montgomery | June 21, 2019 Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash It’s not enough to simply offer a gospel that only offers divine forgiveness of sins. A gospel that is faithful to the Jesus story must include people forgiving…
by Herb Montgomery Featured Text: “The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is generous, your whole body is radiant; but if your eye is jaundiced, your whole body is dark. So if the light within you…