We begin a series today on a book by Paul Louis Metzger called Consuming Jesus. This will be a fitting complement to Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change since this book calls evangelicals to explore the the consumerist origins of racism and classism among evangelicals. Paul is a professor at Multnomah (and a former student). |inline Read more
I had a birthday in the last couple of weeks and Kris surprised me with this statement. “After dinner tonight, we’re going to the mall to get something you don’t want.” This, of course, got me to thinking about what I clearly don’t want but which Kris thinks I need. |inline Read more
We come now to the closing chapter of Walsh and Keesmaat’s Colossians Remixed. The last chp is about a “suffering ethic” and it concerns the imaginary trial of Nympha. |inline Read more
O God, whose blessed Son came into the world that he might destroy the works of the devil and make us children of God and heirs of eternal life: Grant that, having this hope, we may purify ourselves as he is pure; that, when he comes again with power and great glory, we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; where he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and... Read more
Being green preserves nature: |inline Read more
We have an old desk top iMac on which Lukas set up for us the iTunes player. One of the very few things I can do is find “Scot’s Favorites” and click it as I begin my day of study. I looked today at the song that has been played the most often. Fernando Ortega “Lord of Eternity” from Breaking of the Dawn. Right now David Crowder is singing “All Creatures of our God and King” from Illuminate. Read more
We begin a series today on Telford Work’s new book, Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, a book on the Lord’s Prayer unlike any book on either prayer or the Lord’s prayer I’ve seen. Here’s why: |inline Read more
I grew up among dispensationalists and the first Bible I bought, with my newspaper money, was a KJV Scofield Bible. The singular feature of dispensationalism that has bothered more than a few of us is the graphic realization that dispensationalism only arose at the end of the 19th Century, crept into the USA and virtually took over the evangelical world — well, that’s one of the stories that has been told. A more accurate story will tell you … |inline Read more
Here are some of my own responses to Brian McLaren, Everything Must Change. |inline Read more
What about women?, so asks Nympha in Walsh and Keesmaat’s imaginary dialogue in the church at Colosse (in Colossians Remixed). |inline Read more
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