2015-04-08T10:42:39-05:00

In two weeks, Missio Alliance will be hosting a Kingdom Conspiracy event at Lipscomb University featuring my recent books. Part of the time will include a panel with local church leaders and practitioners, and the panelists have been set for what should be a great discussion. In fact, these panelists will no doubt challenge our proposals of what “kingdom” means — come join us for this discussion! Register here. Here are the panelists: Lee Camp is Professor of Theology &... Read more

2015-04-03T15:15:17-05:00

David George Moore.  Dave blogs at www.twocities.org. I had some fruitful conversations about my recent piece on the Gospel Coalition . I am grateful for the many good exchanges and trust there can be greater understanding even amidst all our differences. No matter what Christian tradition we align with, or group we associate with, all of us should consider the following questions.  Over the years I have sought to ask myself these kinds of things on a regular basis: *Am I... Read more

2015-04-08T06:12:34-05:00

Book Review of How Not to Kill a Muslim, by Josh Graves — review by Collin Packer How Not to Kill a Muslim, Review by Collin Packer, preacher at the Greenville Oaks Church of Christ and you can follow him @collinpacker Book purchasable here and here. Whether you’ve seriously considered killing a Muslim or not, I would highly recommend  Josh Graves’ new book, How Not to Kill a Muslim. Josh is the Preaching & Teaching Minister at the Otter Creek Church near... Read more

2015-04-08T06:25:10-05:00

Here is a simple claim I make: everything we learn about the Christian life we learn in our church. That may turn some off, but hear me out: we are not alone in anything we do; we are in a context of others in what we learn; the “context” for Christian living is a church; therefore, we learn the Christian life in the church. Some, in fact, learn the Christian life in an anti-church mode, but it is still in the context... Read more

2015-04-04T11:41:33-05:00

Charles Moore: Last Sunday, however, I did see a good play about Jesus, though it was not so described. It was simply the Gospel – this year, St Mark’s – for Palm Sunday, the last Sunday before Jesus was crucified, in our local church. Every Palm Sunday, the story of the Passion is read, and because it is much longer than the usual Gospel, it is voiced as if on stage. A member of the congregation reads the narrative; others... Read more

2015-04-07T18:23:18-05:00

The next two propositions in John Walton’s new book The Lost World of Adam and Eve focus on the use of the word ˀādām in Genesis 1-5 and on the purpose of the creation accounts found in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2. In this post we will consider both of these propositions. Once upon a time there was a man named Human. The first thing to note is that the word ˀādām is a Hebrew word meaning human. It is... Read more

2015-04-06T06:36:17-05:00

The tendency today among Christians is not so much to deny heaven as a genuine hope and reality but to minimize it as a factor in the faith or, what is worse, to diminish it by saying we ought to focus on the present life (because, after all, heaven is just speculation). In Jerry Walls very fine new book, Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, he sketches the belief systems of those who have surrendered hope in heaven. So today I want to look what happens... Read more

2015-04-06T14:21:35-05:00

Fred Barbash: Still, while Ryan was grooming him in his first two years in Madison, he didn’t play much. So the road to the championship was a little bit longer and more challenging than it is for some superstars. And then there was the disappointment of getting beaten by Kentucky in the Final Four last year, especially after he started his “What It Was Like” blog series to describe the NCAA tournament. “I said in the intro that my blogs... Read more

2015-04-02T19:51:06-05:00

Shannon Ryan: An annual report from Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport noted that head coaching opportunities for people of color “declined significantly” in 2013-14. Just 22 percent of men’s Division I basketball coaches were African-American, down from 23 percent the year prior. The all-time high for black head coaches came in 2005-06 when 25.2 percent were African-American. The lowest rates came in 2011-12 when only 18.6 percent were African-American. The inequity is striking given that 58... Read more

2015-04-02T19:41:49-05:00

“No, I Don’t Have to Be a Conservative, a Moderate, or a Liberal– And You Can’t Make Me!” (by Allan Bevere) Ever since the French Revolution, politics has been seen in terms of a left-right spectrum. The further Left you go (it is assumed), the more you will favour forms constricting an aristocratic authority, loose structures, plenty of voting about everything and ultimately anarchy. The further Right you go (it is equally assumed), the more you will want a controlling... Read more

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