(Say the Jesus Creed morning and evening during Lent.) Our Friday series is special: not only are we gathered together as blog friends, but the author of our book, Stories with Intent, is a personal friend. Klyne Snodgrass is one of the highlights at North Park and I’m privileged to know him and to have gleaned wisdom from him all these years. Our parable today is from Luke 7:41-43. Here it is; read it first: |inline Read more
There’s lots of storm brewing in ChicagoLand about the Cubs announcing they could be remodeling Wrigley Field. Here’s a good site fighting off the move. Read more
When I began working on The Blue Parakeet, I had in mind a book that would show the extremes in evangelicalism on four or five topics and show how a third way, the way of moderation, is both more accurate and more peaceable. Well, that intent didn’t happen because there was too much to be said about how we “apply” the Bible. So, I’m delighted that Roger Olson in his new book, Reformed and Always Reforming, does what I was... Read more
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.. |inline Read more
(Say the Jesus Creed morning and evening during Lent.) This series is from RJS and she is an expert in this topic and way beyond what I could do. I’m honored to have her leading this discussion. Almost two years ago now Francis S. Collins, Head of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), published a book entitled The Language of God. This book describes how Dr. Collins, an outspoken evangelical Christian reconciles his faith with... Read more
One of my best friends and a colleague is Rajkumar Boaz Johnson. I call him the “Rajah” which means “king”, “Raj” means “prince” and “Kumar” means “son.” Boaz is from India and we talk almost every day about our academic work, our school, our department, our families and much about life in general. (He teaches Old Testament, which I don’t hold against him but it does put limits on things.) I told a story about his wonderful wife, Sarita, in... Read more
Matthew 23: 13 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.. |inline Read more
(Say the Jesus Creed morning and evening during Lent.) Some of my finest moments of exhilaration in study have emerged out of visions for what public discourse has been and could be. But we are presently mired, largely in the wake of America’s culture wars, in bombastic and apocalyptic ruts. We have Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh and Anne Coulter and Sean Hannity and Michael Moore and Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, and just naming them embarrasses public discourse. I... Read more
Many of you will remember the fun we had when we posted the three possible covers for our book with Zondervan called “The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking how you read the Bible.” Well, here’s a link to a Zondervan page where the cover is shown. This is a picture from the first time I told the blue parakeet story… Read more
We now look at another kingdom text, this from Matthew 22:1ff: 1 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.. |inline Read more
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