Our Missional God 6

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

So how does a biblical view of monotheism — that YHWH is the one and only God — and this God’s mission to make himself known throughout the world, especially in Jesus Christ, lead to a missional understanding of the Bible? This is what Chris Wright discusses in the last part of 4 in his book The Mission of God. Or put a little more clearly: How is biblical monotheism missional? A good question for your cup of coffee or... Read more

Now Brewing: One Village Coffee

Last updated on: July 30, 2008 at 12:15 am By Scot McKnight

The good folks at One Village Coffee, ahem Mike Manney, sent me a package of one of my favorite coffees in the world — and it is ecological, environmental and all that — Colombia. Colombia has a wonderful crema, a nice aroma, and it is creamy smooth in drinking. I’m hoping that more and more stores in the Philly area are selling it, that some churches will partner with One Village, and that this coffee spreads its goodness. Grind some... Read more

Heaven 19

Last updated on: July 30, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Acts 7 also has a very interesting reference to “heaven.” Here are three texts in Acts 7: |inline Read more

Australian Consolation: Despair

Last updated on: July 29, 2008 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

Many know the experience of despair, the sense that there is “nothing ahead but emptiness and ruin.” The third study of how theology can console in The Consolations of Theology takes on the theme of despair. |inline Read more

The Shack

Last updated on: July 29, 2008 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

This is the most intelligent review of The Shack that I’ve seen: Derek Keefe really does get what this book is. The Shack Read more

Heaven 18

Last updated on: July 29, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Acts 4 has two references to heaven, and neither opens up new vistas for us on the meaning of heaven. |inline Read more

Our Missional God 5

Last updated on: July 28, 2008 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

One of the more interesting conversations in the Church is the one about the deity of Christ. Very few of these conversations, though, frame the conversation in such a way that it emerges out of the Story of God in Israel. But this is just what Chris Wright does in chp. 4 of The Mission of God, and today I want to dip into the first half. |inline Read more

Finding Faith, Losing Faith

Last updated on: July 28, 2008 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

Our book is now out! And this time “our” means “Scot McKnight and Hauna Ondrey.” A real plural. The title is Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy and Baylor has produced a book that fits well in your hand and looks good. Let me tell you a bit about this book. |inline Read more

Heaven 17

Last updated on: July 28, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

We are in a series that seeks to examine what “heaven” refers to in the NT, and we are particularly searching to see if “heaven” is the eternal destiny. In other words, is heaven the intermediate state or the divine control room that must be distinguished from the “new heavens and the new earth,” or is “heaven” one term used for what can also be called the new heavens and the new earth? To do this, we pause for nearly... Read more

Prayer for the Week

Last updated on: July 27, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more