Dr halford luccock biography
Dr halford luccock biography
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Raise your head, start living a Jesus-like life
Have you met the pastor of St.-John’s-by-the- gas-station church?
He was an irreverent, insightful alter ego of Dr.
Halford Luccock, a preaching professor at Yale’s Divinity School in the 1930s and 1940s, in Luccock’s writings for Christian Century magazine.
One day, as the pastor greeted parishioners after the service, one man said, “Pastor, you were preaching over my head today.”
To which the pastor replied directly, “Then raise your head.”
That is what I ask you to do today: “Raise your head.”
It’s a vital mental and spiritual position to hold today when religious uniformity pretends to be unity, and when religious “beliefs” parade as doctrinal purity.
Religious control of others isn’t Jesus-like.
These are not expressions of what Jesus called “the abundant life.” He promised much more.
In response to my last column about Jesus calling us out of our religious tombs, one reader asked: “Do you have any ideas on how the tradit