Reforming 12

Last updated on: April 18, 2008 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

Roger Olson’s next chp in Reformed and Always Reforming takes on yet another crucial theme: tradition and orthodoxy in postconservative evangelical theology. |inline Read more

Preparing for Pentecost 20

Last updated on: April 18, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

What is at the center of our life? For many, as I suggest in 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed, it is work. Abe Lincoln said this: “My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh — anything but work.” |inline Read more

Why Work? 2

Last updated on: April 17, 2008 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

The fundamental problem in Christian thinking about work is dualism. That dualism leads to a hierarchy of what matters most. These two statements are at the heart of chp 1 of Darrell Cosden, The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work, and I’d like to discuss these two statements today. |inline Read more

On Reading Fiction 3

Last updated on: April 6, 2013 at 8:33 am By Scot McKnight

Dan deRoulet is my instructor in this series on how to read fiction. We are looking at Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation.” He’s asked me two questions — which parables do the exposition and crisis evoke, and where was Mrs. Turpin when she got her epiphany? |inline Read more

What a difference one year can make

Last updated on: April 17, 2008 at 12:15 am By Scot McKnight

One year ago our Dept was scrambling to cover Joel Willitts’ classes. Karla and Joel had twins, premature, and they were wrapped up in the hospital for a long, long time. So, we taught Joel’s classes. There were times when Joel and Karla wondered if they could handle what God had given them, but this picture is a pretty good indicator they are flourishing. |inline Read more

Preparing for Pentecost 19

Last updated on: April 17, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Spiritual disciplines are a waste of time if they are not living out or toward the first element of the Jesus Creed: loving God. So, in 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed, I suggest the spiritual disciplines are actually the Jesus Creed in practice. |inline Read more

On Reading Fiction 2

Last updated on: April 6, 2013 at 8:32 am By Scot McKnight

I’m doing a series with Dan deRoulet, author of Finding Your Plot in a Plotless World, on how to read fiction, a lesson I needed long ago. We are using Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation” (Collected Works) as our example, and this is part two. This post is by Dan. |inline Read more

Reforming 11

Last updated on: April 16, 2008 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

Well, a real bug-bear of a term now comes up in Roger Olson’s Reformed and Always Reforming, chp. 5: Propositionalism. What is it? And what are the alternatives when it comes to understanding revelation and Scripture? |inline Read more

Preparing for Pentecost 18

Last updated on: April 16, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Only a genuine baptism of the Spirit, the Pentecostal Spirit, empowers us to be what the Sermon on the Mount calls us to be. In 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed I state that loving your enemies — an important command of Jesus in his radical Sermon on the Mount — is what the Jesus Creed calls us to do. |inline Read more

Beckon Q

Last updated on: April 15, 2008 at 12:32 am By Scot McKnight

Last Saturday night Kris and I were at Willow with Laura and Mark. The band, led by North Park’s own Matt Lundgren, started to play a good song and then another song. Then I looked up at the big screen — another North Parker, Becky Johnson, of Beckon Q — a missional band in the Chicago area — and a former student of ours. I was so pumped to see Becky singing with Matt. |inline Read more