Jesus Creed
How do you know God’s will? Well, Mike Breaux — who is one of my favorite preachers — preached about this last weekend at Willow Creek and I think his points, even if not new, are spot-on: |inline Read more
How do you know God’s will? Well, Mike Breaux — who is one of my favorite preachers — preached about this last weekend at Willow Creek and I think his points, even if not new, are spot-on: |inline Read more
Paul is willing to let the penny drop and one place he does is that the indicator that a person is God’s is if they have the Spirit — and one knows if one has the Spirit by the “witness of the Spirit with our spirit” (Rom 8:16). |inline Read more
I sent the ms for The Real Mary: Why Evangelical Christians Can Embrace the Mother of Jesus to the publisher (Paraclete) Friday, and now I await word from my fantastic editor, Lil Copan. The good news is that the book will be out in time for The Nativity movie (December 1), which means those who come away from that movie wondering what the “real” Mary was like can have something to read about her. |inline Read more
Here’s my thesis: Republicans believe “what is good for me is good for the nation” and Democrats believe “what is good for the nation is good for me.” Christians think “how can I and how can we, as a community of faith, incarnate and diffuse the gospel in the world in which we live?” |inline Read more
Spencer Burke’s A Heretic’s Guide to Eternity is divided into 3 major sections. The second one concerns “Questioning What We Know: New Horizons of Faith.” Because Spencer does not operate rigorously with the law of non-contradiction, but instead operates with a mosaic of images and metaphors that, because they are brought into connection with one another, evoke ideas, it is not easy to know where to dig in. I wil list here the major ideas of these three chapters: |inline Read more
Christian existence in the Spirit of God, Paul says in Romans 8:12-17, is learning to anticipate death by dying to the “flesh” in the here and now. Here’s a fine quotation from Tom Wright: |inline Read more
The NY Times article on Greg Boyd’s church in Minneapolis is catching attention. Why? (Below.) |inline Read more
The NY Times article on Greg Boyd’s church in Minneapolis is catching attention. Why? (Below.) |inline Read more
About two weeks ago, Lukas and Annika arrived for a wedding of friends (and former students of mine), so we all went to the wedding. Then a day or so later, Lukas and Annika flew to Florida so Luke could finish his minor league coverage of the Fort Myers Miracle and Lakeland Tigers. They left us with the grand-dogs, a Cairn terrier (Slater) and a Goldendoodle (Meriam). |inline Read more
About two weeks ago, Lukas and Annika arrived for a wedding of friends (and former students of mine), so we all went to the wedding. Then a day or so later, Lukas and Annika flew to Florida so Luke could finish his minor league coverage of the Fort Myers Miracle and Lakeland Tigers. They left us with the grand-dogs, a Cairn terrier (Slater) and a Goldendoodle (Meriam). |inline Read more
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