Prayer for the Week

Last updated on: February 18, 2007 at 2:30 am By Scot McKnight

Lent begins Wednesday. Here is Ephrem’s Lenten prayer, one we can use throughout this Lenten season: O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own transgressions, and not to judge my brother, for blessed art Thou, unto ages of ages. Amen. Read more

Weekly Meanderings

Last updated on: February 17, 2007 at 2:30 am By Scot McKnight

We’ll be down in North Carolina speaking at an emerging event with Tony Jones late next week; the event is called Keeping Jesus Revolutionary. And, as I said last week, we are in Indianapolis Sunday at East 91st Street Church. |inline Read more

Dugout Wisdom

Last updated on: February 17, 2007 at 2:20 am By Scot McKnight

Jimmy Piersall, famous broadcaster with the White Sox and well-known for saying that he was “sane and had paper to prove it,” on hitting his 100th home run and running the bases backward: “That way I can see where I have been. I always know where I’m going.” |inline Read more

Friday is for Friends

Last updated on: February 16, 2007 at 2:30 am By Scot McKnight

Emptying — not a word often heard these days — is the first “discipline” Darryl Tippens discusses in his excellent study of the sorts of spiritual disciplines that we need to develop in community. Remember, this is a book about spiritual disciplines that shape community. His book is called Pilgrim Heart. |inline Read more

Is Emergence the 60s all over again?

Last updated on: February 16, 2007 at 2:20 am By Scot McKnight

This question has been asked more than once, but a colleague of mine at the seminary wrote me and said this: |inline Read more

Integrity as Self-identity

Last updated on: February 16, 2007 at 2:10 am By Scot McKnight

Christian conversion is the transformation of one’s own identity in relationship to Jesus Christ. One “self-identifies” in relationship to Jesus Christ. The psalmist self-identifies as: |inline Read more

Redemptive Trend: Response to Grudem

Last updated on: February 15, 2007 at 2:30 am By Scot McKnight

Last week I posted a basic summary of Grudem’s response to the redemptive trend hermeneutic or the redemptive movement hermeneutic (RMH). This week I want to offer a response to Grudem, and I welcome your comments. |inline Read more

I love the Baptists of New Orleans

Last updated on: February 15, 2007 at 2:20 am By Scot McKnight

Not that I know them all, but I had a splendid time at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Here’s my account: |inline Read more

Integrity as Demand

Last updated on: February 15, 2007 at 2:10 am By Scot McKnight

In Psalm 119:126, the psalmist informs God that “It is time for you to act, YHWH.” Why? “Your law is being broken.” We are back to the integrity of vv. 121-122 and the appeal he made there: now his appeal widens. |inline Read more

What do Emergents Believe?

Last updated on: February 14, 2007 at 2:30 am By Scot McKnight

Bob Webber has now edited a volume called Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches (Zondervan). If you’d like to enter into the muck and rake of emerging theology, this is one place to do so — a good example of how emerging “practitioners” think. Correction: I orginally assumed in light of a comment by Driscoll in the book, that the authors were asked to address three topics (Scripture, atonement, Trinity), but I have now seen the assignment and they... Read more