I keep asking you to pray for Bob and Linda and the kids because they need our prayers; here’s an update from Matt Robinson last night. Hi, all. Today is Tuesday, Feb. 21. Thank you all for your love and prayers. Linda said this morning was not a good morning. Bob was very agitated during the times he was awake. It’s discouraging in the ups and downs. |inline Read more
Peter is writing his letter to resident aliens and migrant workers in Asia Minor, and they want to know how to live in the Roman Empire. Why do they ask such a question? Because they are now living in the way of Jesus. What difference does that make? |inline Read more
An excellent brief on how postmodernity intersects with how we understand atonement can be found in Michael Alsford’s essay, “The Atonement and the Post-Modern Deconstruction of the Self,” in J. Goldingay, Atonement Today (pp. 203-221). Essentially, Alsford contends that postmodernity forces the question of the dethronement of the self which modernity enthroned. |inline Read more
Yesterday we looked at 1 Peter’s readers: “aliens and strangers.” We laid out the two major options, and in this post I want to provide an argument for why I think these two terms describe the social location of Peter’s readers. In other words, that they are “resident aliens” (socially speaking) and “temporary residents” (socially speaking). How to prove such? |inline Read more
Here’s a brisk and evocative claim: “Salvation is not a one-night stand. It cannot be isolated from the thick texture of history; it is all-encompassing, pulling everything that has happened and happens, and every person named and unnamed, into relationship with the work of God in history” (147). The Exodus is the OT example of how salvation works in history. Is your theory of redemptive historical? |inline Read more
A former student called and asked me about humility. Which in itself surprised me because I don’t think he called me because he thought I was particularly humble. Its lack in my life, however, didn’t stop me from ruminating with him about it. How, he was asking, do we get humility? |inline Read more
In this series of posts, I will focus on 1 Peter as reflective of a theology and a set of churches in an emerging situation. That is, I will examine 1 Peter from front to back as an attempt by Peter to make sense of the way of Jesus in a new setting — a setting that forced Peter to come to terms with the gospel and a gospel way of life in a world that was not Jewish and... Read more
Allan Bevere and I continue today our series on Tom Wright’s new book, Paul in Fresh Perspective. Bevere’s Summary: |inline Read more
I’ve not read it put any better than this when it comes to how Jews respond to the cross and how Christians depict it: “There is a glaring contradiction between a theological tradition [of anti-Semitism] which sets the cross against Israel and uses it to justify setting the Christian community against Israel when the event at the foundation of the tradition was an event for Israel and one which had as its purpose the uniting in reconciliation and fellowship of... Read more
Matt Robinson writes: Good evening! Today is Sunday, Feb. 19. I’m sorry for the delay in updates. Linda just called and said Bob is progressing, only in very small steps. The trach is helping. Now they hope tomorrow to insert a feeding tube. |inline Read more
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