Gospel 38

Last updated on: November 25, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Paul discusses in several places in 2 Cor 8–11 matters pertaining to supporting gospel work, gospeling itself, and striving for expanding the opportunities to gospel: (more…) Read more

The Christ-Haunted Vampire Novelist

Last updated on: November 24, 2008 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

Anne Rice’s vampire novels have sold 100 million copies. She now writes, as she tells us so candidly in her memoir of conversion, Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession , solely for God. Her story is an old genre: faith and then atheism and then rediscovery of faith. But, because her faith is also profoundly personal and because no two persons are identical, her story is a fresh story of conversion (and a good Christmas present book). Questions for... Read more

Tribes

Last updated on: November 24, 2008 at 12:15 am By Scot McKnight

As a college student I got to spend a few weeks in Romford England. I was part of a group of young missionary students and our leader taught us how to do street evangelism. His point was simple: You’ve got four minutes to make your point. Why? Because those who are listening will move on and you will have a new audience. I think Seth Godin, in his new widely-read book, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us , must... Read more

Gospel 37

Last updated on: November 24, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Gospeling involves a gospeler, but the gospeler is not the gospel. In fact, the contrast between the gospel and the gospeler serves to highlight the power of God. Notice 2 Cor 4:1-7: (more…) Read more

Prayer for the Week

Last updated on: November 23, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well¯beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Read more

Prayer for the Week

Last updated on: November 23, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Weekly Meanderings

Last updated on: November 22, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Imagine how big that New York City tree must be in Texas! (more…) Read more

Do you read Greek?

Last updated on: November 22, 2008 at 12:05 am By Scot McKnight

If you do and you have heard about “aspect” or “aspect theory” or “verbal aspect” and you wonder what in the world is going on, I urge you to read this book: Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek. If you learned Greek more than twenty years ago you probably learned about tenses and a present tense meant something was going on right now and an aorist meant it happened in the past. Then along came the “aspect gang” and... Read more

Note from Beliefnet About Commenting

Last updated on: November 21, 2008 at 2:14 pm By Scot McKnight

Dear Jesus Creed Readers, Last week at Beliefnet we implemented a small change to our blog commenting system – you now have to confirm that you are a real person, and not a spammer, by typing in a few characters of text upon submitting your comments. This change was necessary in order to curtail the amount of spam that many of our blogs have been receiving in the comments area. We know that some of you have experienced problems with... Read more

Friday is for Friends

Last updated on: November 21, 2008 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

The desert monks committed huge portions of Scripture to memory, not only putting us moderns to shame but also reminding us of the potency of a simple life. One reason for putting so much Scripture to memory was to learn to “redirect” thoughts. That is, to ward off temptations. This is the subject of the sixth chp of Kathleen Norris, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life . This is why the monks put so much of... Read more