Atonement is an emerging issue, both for the emerging movement and for traditional evangelical Protestantism. I’m working on a book for Abingdon on atonement, and presently sorting out some of the literature. The volume by Charles Hill and Frank James III, The Glory of the Atonement (IVP, 2004), represents a strong-minded strand: the evangelical Reformed view of the atonement. What is that view? |inline Read more
David Cooke, a former student of mine at TEDS and now the pastor of a burgeoning, healthy church in Placerville, asked us out for a Jesus Creed weekend. Cold Springs is doing Jesus Creed in their Bible studies, and that is of course the best combination we have found this year in traveling around speaking. In spite of snow and rain the whole time, we had a splendid time. |inline Read more
David Cooke, a former student of mine at TEDS and now the pastor of a burgeoning, healthy church in Placerville, asked us out for a Jesus Creed weekend. Cold Springs is doing Jesus Creed in their Bible studies, and that is of course the best combination we have found this year in traveling around speaking. In spite of snow and rain the whole time, we had a splendid time. |inline Read more
I missed yesterday because our flight was delayed, but I want to resume where we left off last Friday, and stick to 1 Peter 2:11-12, which is the heart of Peter’s letter. The readers to whom he gives this address are powerless: Rome’s might is unstoppable, and the little clutch of Christians in Asia Minor is not potent enough to do anything but act in such a way that its future can be preserved. |inline Read more
I missed yesterday because our flight was delayed, but I want to resume where we left off last Friday, and stick to 1 Peter 2:11-12, which is the heart of Peter’s letter. The readers to whom he gives this address are powerless: Rome’s might is unstoppable, and the little clutch of Christians in Asia Minor is not potent enough to do anything but act in such a way that its future can be preserved. |inline Read more
Many of us in the emerging movement are seeking to build bridges to the Christian past — to each of the three major forms: the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church, and Eastern Orthodoxy. But, there is “give and take”: that is, as we learn from each of these great traditions of the Church, we expect them to learn from the Protestant evangelical tradition as well. |inline Read more
Well, register your guess now. Who will win the NCAA Men’s tournament? I’ve got two Big Ten teams in my top ten. I’ll revise this list as teams get eliminated. Read more
Today is March 12. My mom and I talked with Bob today! He is speaking aloud and feeling somewhat better — still needing pain meds at times. The trach came out on Friday. He is in the Special Care Unit at Mercy. He can sit up more and is eating, but not sleeping well. |inline Read more
We left Sacramento a few minutes late on United (fly the friendly skies), at 1:52pm, and were informed that our flight would be 3 hours and 28 minutes to touch-down in Chicago. Somewhere just west of Souix Falls, South Dakota, we were informed that there was some “weather” near Chicago, and that we would soon have to keep in our seats — which meant turbulence for a long time. And that was just the start. |inline Read more
Maybe America’s best kept secret is northern California. I confess to the “California stereotype”: California = sunny, beachy, hang loose, Beach Boys Southern California. Up here in the north, though, the weather is cool, the people are looking for peace and comfort, and the appeal is to the past rather than to the “next thing beyond the next.” |inline Read more
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