The glory of God is a human fully alive,” so said Irenaeus, and this line is both quoted and a theme for Trevor Hudson’s new book, Discovering Our Spiritual Identity: Practices for God’s Beloved. Signpost #5: We discover ourselves in a new family, the family of God. We cannot be followers of Jesus all alone. Spiritual friendship is the theme. “Saying yes to Jesus, I discovered, involved saying yes to his family, both visible and invisible.” The Jesus-yes, Church-no slogan... Read more
From Slate, interview by Kathryn Schulz. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a 13-year-old kid named Josh Stieber vowed that as soon as he was old enough, he would join the military. His goal: to help protect his country and spread its values of freedom and democracy around the world. With the war still on when he graduated from high school, Stieber enlisted in 2006 and was deployed to Baghdad in 2007. A devout Christian and a staunch political... Read more
We’ve been working through Denis O. Lamoureux’s book Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution – a book that describes a way to move beyond the creation and evolutions debates. Chapter 6 of the book works through Genesis 1-11 considering the nature of the texts, the genre of the various stories told, the logical inconsistencies present within the text when interpreted in a literal historical fashion, the relationship of the text to literary forms and conventions common in the ancient... Read more
“The glory of God is a human fully alive,” so said Irenaeus, and this line is both quoted and a theme for Trevor Hudson’s new book, Discovering Our Spiritual Identity: Practices for God’s Beloved. This book is a workbook, and I’ve not mentioned that yet. Each chp has sidebars and blocks and questions for us to fill in — to ponder all over anew the Signpost of the chapter. Great book. Signpost #4: The gospel is the availability of the... Read more
If you are in Seattle, and have a chance to go … On New Year’s Day, In the evening, Tom Rorem, one of our students, and whose story I tell a bit of in One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow, will be opening for Noah Gundersen and the Courage with Lowlands. The event is at Triple Door. Wish I could be there! I will give away one free copy of One.Life if you go up to Tom, tell him hi from... Read more
Nathan Chud captures the mindset and yearning and the honest heart-ache of the young adults — university students or not — to whom my One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow is addressed. I don’t believe the best approach here is traditional apologetics. Put Jesus at the table of this generation’s conversation and I think you will hear what they have to say about themselves, the church and Jesus himself. At this table we must listen as well as talk. Why? Because... Read more
The Book of Revelation needs to be interpreted — and there are five major forms of interpreting Revelation. Which is your interpretive model? Today we discuss these models, and in our next post (next Monday) sketch Gorman’s criticisms of the Left Behind (and similar) approaches. Michael Gorman, Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation breaks down the methods of interpreting Revelation into five basic methods. First, the Predictive approach. The book is about... Read more
When I was in seminary nearly all of my friends were post-tribbers. When I was teaching in a seminary, nearly all of the Faculty were post-tribbers, or at least they weren’t pre-tribbers. Those aren’t scientific polls obviously, but I was not alone in thinking that the dispensational pre-trib days were behind us and that we were poised to study and teach the Book of Revelation and eschatology from new angles. But something happened. Pre-tribbing is as much “in” today as... Read more
“The glory of God is a human fully alive,” so said Irenaeus, and this line is both quoted and a theme for Trevor Hudson’s new book, Discovering Our Spiritual Identity: Practices for God’s Beloved. Signpost #3: Christian faith is grounded in remembrance — remembering God’s presence in the life of Jesus, in our life, and in our day. Trevor confesses that when he began to develop the discipline/signpost of remembering, “my awareness of the Holy One’s active presence throughout my... Read more
The tax cut issue is not just a tax cut issue. It is also a discipleship issue. What does your Bible reading and theology inform you to say about the tax cuts? From WaPo: Are tax cuts moral? A deal President Obama struck with Republican leaders last week will extend tax cuts across the board including, controversially, to the richest Americans. Some politicians argue that religious values should be reflected in the public square. Should this faith-based view of politics... Read more
Select your answer to see how you score.
Jesus Creed
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In