Jesus Creed
It’s been too long since I listened to ABBA, clearly one of the great groups of rock history.Are you tapping your feet or dancing? Tell the truth.Mike Bird, how about you?Do I have a witness? Read more
It’s been too long since I listened to ABBA, clearly one of the great groups of rock history.Are you tapping your feet or dancing? Tell the truth.Mike Bird, how about you?Do I have a witness? Read more
This summer, July 24th-26th, the annual meeting for Christians for Biblical Equality will be meeting in St. Louis — and there are scholarships for those who are full-time students and in financial need. Let’s hear from those who have attended these sessions. Read more
Introverts, Extroverts, and the Jesus Creed. On at least a couple of occasions, I have been asked whether I get energized (or re-energized) when I am alone, or when with others. It is a classic, yet simplistic indicator used to see if one is an introvert or an extrovert (or ambivert, for those closer to the middle): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion. The topic of introverts and extroverts, in relation to the Christian walk, has been brought to mind a few times recently. A... Read more
We finish this series on Tom Wright, in Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision . We will look into his treatment of Romans 6 and then offer his summary of what is being said: “Paul does not, ‘I am in Christ; Christ has obeyed the Torah; therefore God regards me as though I had obeyed the Torah.’ He says: ‘I am in Christ; Christ has died and been raised; therefore God regards me — and I must learn to regard... Read more
Here’s a letter from a former student in response to one of the prayers we posted on Sunday as Prayer for the Week, which come from The Book of Common Prayer… Dr. McKnight, Why is that prayer is often called talking with God- but prayers (at least ones people consider good prayers) are never constructed the way we speak, or even the way we normally write? I think alot of people, myself included, often feel their prayers are weaker or... Read more
We turn now to a new section in James, to James 4:13–5:6. There are two paragraphs: 4:13-17 and 5:1-6. Each addresses a slightly different audience, the first one rich merchants and the second one rich farmers. The first is guilty of presumption, the second of oppression. Here is the text from the first paragraph: Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”... Read more
Today we begin a series of posts looking at Alister McGrath’s new book A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology. This book is an enlarged version of his 2009 Gifford Lectures in which McGrath examines the evidence for and interpretation of fine-tuning in the universe. You can find the texts of his lectures online. CS Lewis is quoted as saying “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I... Read more
I don’t know if you have heard this, but many have charged missionaries with colonialism and with connecting the gospel to consumerism, mass communication, materiaism, individualism, and capitalism that damages native cultures. In Mark Noll’s new book, The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith this set of accusations is given a hearing. He first sketches the evidence about Russia and does not find sufficient evidence to say much of substance. There are accusations about American... Read more
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The good folks at Englewood Review of Books and I tried something: an interview on Twitter. The “twinterview” was about our Fasting: The Ancient Practices book, and Josh has an amazingly clever post of the tweets. John Frye has just begun a multi-post review about the book, too. Thanks folks. Read more
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