Urgent prayer for a Jesus Creeder

Last updated on: August 14, 2008 at 4:59 pm By Scot McKnight

From a regular reader and contributor to our Jesus Creed community…. about his wife. Dear Scot, I’d like to ask you a favor. I really need some prayer. |inline Read more

Good Teachers 4

Last updated on: August 14, 2008 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

Good teachers teach in similar ways. One of the patterns of good teachers is how they prepare to teach — how they prepare to engage students. Ken Bain, in What the Best College Teachers Do, writes about the questions these kinds of teachers are asking themselves when they prepare. We looked at #1-6, and today we look at #7-13. |inline Read more

Those were the days, my friend …

Last updated on: August 14, 2008 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

I thought they’d never end (and I’m glad they are over). The first kids baseball team I coached; John Raymond was the assistant and was at Trinity Seminary at the time (July 1986). He’s now with Zondervan. Lukas was about 6 years old, and the only kid on the team who could catch a baseball, so he played 1st base. We found this pic at the bottom of a drawer. Read more

Heaven 28

Last updated on: August 14, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Colossians has several references to heaven, one of which we need to pause with today: |inline Read more

Missional God 10

Last updated on: August 13, 2008 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

Monday we looked at the big tough question about “missional” even being appropriate for the Old Testament. Today we look at chp 7 in Chris Wright, The Mission of God, to discover the number of texts that push the universal button in the Old Testament. If Jonah is your typical response to Gentile missions, that doesn’t make it right (or wright). |inline Read more

Grace Boldly

Last updated on: August 13, 2008 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

Cathleen Falsani, an award-winning religion writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, calls her new book Sin Boldly and finishes it off with this subtitle: A Field Guide for Grace. That title, “sin boldly,” comes from Luther, but this book is not about sin but about grace, and it is a field guide. |inline Read more

Heaven 27

Last updated on: August 13, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

One of the most significant texts in this discussion of the “permanence” of heaven is Philippians 3:20. In context now: |inline Read more

Good Teachers 3

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

How do good teachers prepare to teach? This is the second question asked by Ken Bain in his excellent new book on teaching: What the Best College Teachers Do. |inline Read more

Thanks Bill

Last updated on: August 12, 2008 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

For a few years running now, one of my father’s former students, Bill Roberts, who is now a lawyer in Chicago and Springfield, invites my dad and mom and Kris and me to a Cubs-Cardinals game at Wrigley. As if that invitation isn’t enough, Bill’s law offices have a sky box and we get to sit in the sky box and watch the game. |inline Read more

Heaven 26

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

Many of Paul’s references to heaven repeat what we have seen elsehwere. Thus: |inline Read more