Australian Consolation: Anger

Last updated on: July 22, 2008 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

In 2006 Moore Theological College in Sydney Australia held a conference on the consolations of theology and Brian Rosner edited the papers into a little book worthy of pastoral considerations. The title is The Consolations of Theology. Six studies of human realities — anger, obsession, despair, anxiety, disappointment, and pain. But the approach is to show how one major theologian deals with that problem. So we get Lactantius, Augustine, Luther, Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer and CS Lewis. The authors? Richard Gibson, Andrew... Read more

Books about God

Last updated on: July 22, 2008 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

I will begin reading soon some books about God, and I thought I’d give some of you a heads-up on what’s coming. I will be reading these two books for sure: |inline Read more

Heaven 14

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

Two more texts in John, both of which inform us of nearly the same thing: |inline Read more

A Compline Prayer

Last updated on: July 21, 2008 at 8:17 pm By Scot McKnight

Our dear ones, O God, bless Thou and keep, in every place where they are. Read more

Our Missional God 3

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

To claim the Bible is shaped by a missional concern, as Chris Wright does in The Mission of God, is to give oneself a challenge. Namely, to show that the God of the Bible is a missional God. Here’s how Wright does just that. |inline Read more

“And if you get the chance …”

Last updated on: July 21, 2008 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

Go see Mamma Mia! The Movie. Kris and I loved it. Fun, happy, upbeat, motion-filled turning of the book and the Broadway hit into a Hollywood movie. Meryl Streep is in a world of her own … but maybe I should say it this way: these stars are so comfortable with themselves they can horse around like this and not worry one bit … and Pierce Brosnan, who can’t sing much, sings a little. The scenery is magnificent and reminded... Read more

Heaven 13

Last updated on: July 21, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Yet another interesting text in John, which I have to quote more completely. We are asking what does “heaven” mean and whether or not it is the final place of the blessed. |inline Read more

Is this cool? (or what)

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

Click on it to see it better. We live up at the top of that picture. HT:David Brush Read more

Prayer for the Week

Last updated on: July 20, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Read more

Do you use a Study Bible?

Last updated on: July 19, 2008 at 7:05 am By Scot McKnight

Our daughter, Laura, asked the other day about a study Bible and I recommended this one: TNIV Study Bible. What are your favorite study Bibles? OK, I messed up. I wasn’t thinking — I recommended to her the TNIV, not the NIV, Study Bible … so I just corrected the post. Read more