Jesus Creed
Greatest sports scandals — and they didn’t mention Barry Bonds or Mark McGwire or Rafael Palmeiro or Brady Anderson. Come to think of it, how did they forget Paul Hornung and Alex Karas? |inline Read more
Greatest sports scandals — and they didn’t mention Barry Bonds or Mark McGwire or Rafael Palmeiro or Brady Anderson. Come to think of it, how did they forget Paul Hornung and Alex Karas? |inline Read more
The 8th chp of Jonathan Wilson’s study, Why Church Matters, has to do with baptism, eucharist and footwashing, and in today’s post I will take issue in a way that I hope will generate a good conversation. |inline Read more
I discovered yesterday from a reader named “grace” that my Missional Jesus 10 post never saw the light of day — though it was sitting in my computer and we thought it was public. So here it is again: |inline Read more
Jesus’ missional work generated criticisms of who he was, what he was doing, and whether or not God was in his work at all. In fact, his work is charged as inspired by Satan. This is no small charge against Jesus, and he responds: |inline Read more
One of the sources for my research into why and how some “lose” their orthodox faith is Edward T. Babinski, Leaving the Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamentalists. My research is not simply concerned with folks who begin as Christian and who become agnostics (like Chuck Templeton) or atheists, but what goes on inside a person who leaves a classic, orthodox form of the Christian faith. Today I want to focus on the story of Dennis Macdonald, whose story can be... Read more
Now before I go any further to state my view on this, let it be known that my kind of doctorate is, as one pastor once introduced me before a Sunday morning sermon, “not the kind that does anybody any good.” Indeed. So, I stand here with Anne Fadiman who, in At Large and At Small, says just what I think too: |inline Read more
Missional Jesus incorporated women in his missional work. |inline Read more
Blogs vary from the fun to the gravely serious, and sometimes on this blog I set out an idea or an argument about which I have confidence and sometimes I put forth an idea to generate conversation that I’d like to participate in. Today I do the latter. My big question is this: When we claim to have certainty about our faith are we actually claiming a kind of justification by works — a work called reason? In other words,... Read more
The first day of each month for the next two years we will be discussing John Goldingay’s OT Theology: Israel’s Gospel, and we are now on chp 5, “God Delivered: The Exodus.” So, here goes … and I hope you can manage to read this along with us. (Someone tell Goldingay to write shorter chapters.) |inline Read more
Missional Jesus moves on. Wherever he goes, missional Jesus happens. Today we look at a long-ish text, Luke 7:36-50, and we will see missional Jesus at work. |inline Read more
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