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A picture of the New Creation? Read more
A picture of the New Creation? Read more
*The following is part of the Patheos book club for Sacrilege. To get more info about this book, go here. Hugh Halter has written a book that resonates with me on two levels. The first, he writes as a church planter who has modeled and dreamed about ways in which the modern church can do mission in the 21st-century in a more effective manner. As one who is preparing to church plant in about a years time, this book... Read more
To say that I’m excited to read this is a bit of an understatement 🙂 Info: Coming out in June is Four Views on the Apostle Paul (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2012), edited by myself, with Luke Timothy Johnson (Catholic View), Thomas R. Schreiner (Reformed View), Mark D. Nanos (Jewish View),and Douglas Campbell (Post-New Perspective View). HT: Micheal Bird Read more
Another great video from our friends at The Work of the People! Check them out. This is a great resource for Youth Ministry or church gatherings. If you are in ministry I highly recommend subscribing to their video club or purchasing the Hi Res videos… Walter Brueggemann on on empire and the liberation of the neighborhood. thoughts???? Read more
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From Christianity Today: I grew up with, on, through, and in the apostle Paul. His letters were the heart of our Bible. From the time I began paying attention to my pastor’s sermons, I can only recall sermons on 1 Corinthians—the whole book verse by verse, week by week—and Ephesians. I don’t recall a series on any of the Gospels or on Jesus. There were two annual exceptions to our Pauline focus. At Christmas, we heard a sermon on one... Read more
*Note: This is a repost from August of 2010. It’s relevance shines in light of the Supreme Court hearings happening this week to judge the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Isaiah the prophet sees God’s ultimate dream for health care when the new creation is completed: “No more shall there be…an infant that lives but a few days, or an old person who does not live out a lifetime (Isaiah 65:20).” Over the past year,... Read more
Many of us dream of becoming a hero. To be the one who saves the day. To know what it is to find victory for the sake of the distressed. This quest leads people in all sorts of interesting directions. As a husband, I want to be the man who rescues my wife. I want to save the day. As a pastor, I want to be a man who leads people to the only Source that truly saves. As a... Read more
FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST: “I think the Denver Broncos treated him shabbily,” he said recently on “The 700 Club.” “He won seven games, he brought them into the playoffs, for heaven sakes. I mean, they were a nothing team. He rallied them together with spectacular last-minute passes and, you know, when they beat Buffalo — I mean, Pittsburgh, excuse me — it was a tremendous victory.”….. “So Peyton Manning was a tremendous MVP quarterback, but he’s been injured. If that... Read more
***A Guest Post by Lawrence Garcia. Scholars, we energetically read their books, we quote their work to lend credibility to everything from blogs to school papers, and yes, some of us self-proclaimed “up-and-comers” emulate them aspiring eventually to become actual biblical scholars ourselves. But do we really have what it takes? Are we even aware of the years of the economic, emotional, physical and mental travails that sit unmentioned behind the polished covers of our favorite scholar’s works? If not,... Read more
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