[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] When I was younger, I had a lot of answers. Now I’m older, and I have a lot of questions. The few things I feel like I know, I know with more confidence than before. Here are things I know from experiences I have had that have radically changed my view of GodContinue reading “Game-Changers”
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When Scholarship Serves Superstition
[featured-image size=”featured” link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]image credit: credomag.com[/featured-image] I just came across this statement on a blog I was reading. It refers to a book written by Dr. Peter Enns, former professor at Westminster Seminary, who was fired for writing said book. Here’s the statement: Upon my second reading and more reflection, however, I questioned whetherContinue reading “When Scholarship Serves Superstition”
What is Righteousness?
Yesterday one of Wildwind‘s small group leaders texted me asking if I wouldn’t mind explaining the Biblical understanding of righteousness. He said the word had, for him and his group members, a bit of a negative connotation. I’m not sure why this is, other than possibly its legalistic undertone and associations (conscious or not) withContinue reading “What is Righteousness?”
Words Give You Away
Words give you away. A week or so ago I posted something on Facebook to encourage people who fear that God has been removed from our schools. That post got more likes and shares and “thank you’s” than anything else I’ve ever put on Facebook. When one of my friends shared it to his FacebookContinue reading “Words Give You Away”
Re-post from Peter Enns: Are Christian Fundamentalists Actually Polytheists?
Peter Enns is one of my favorite theologians. He writes in ways that are accessible to non-theologians. As an introduction to him and his work, I have posted his entire most recent blog post below, word for word, putting in red the things that resonated with me most deeply. I encourage you to join theContinue reading “Re-post from Peter Enns: Are Christian Fundamentalists Actually Polytheists?”
God’s Love, prt. 2
[Start at the beginning of this series] Jesus invited us to understand God’s love by thinking of our love for our own children. He did this mainly in two places. One is the parable of the prodigal son. The other is when he said, “If you, though you are evil, know how to give good giftsContinue reading “God’s Love, prt. 2”
God’s Love, prt. 1
Today I am beginning a four-part series explaining my theology, which is based on God’s unconditional and never-ending love for us. This is theology, so it uses a lot of scripture passages, and I realize there are many passages I do not use that create questions of interpretation. This is always the case in any theology. MyContinue reading “God’s Love, prt. 1”
Taking the Gospel to “The Found”
For all the talk that goes on in Christian churches today about reaching “the lost,” I would love to see a little more emphasis on reaching “the found.” When people who identify as Christian but are mired from month to month and year to year in pornography, gambling, addictions, and bad marriages (at nearly identicalContinue reading “Taking the Gospel to “The Found””
O is for Orthodoxy
I am currently blogging, along with my daughter, all the way through the alphabet. Check out how the idea started, and get the rules here. Don’t be afraid! The word Orthodoxy probably scares a lot of people. Orthodoxy is simply the state of holding right beliefs. Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious doctrine; hence,Continue reading “O is for Orthodoxy”
Jack Black Evangelism
I think the emerging church should disappear and then emerge again – as something entirely different. I think it should do that every five years, in that emerging church spirit of always wanting something new and hip. I think it should emerge with great fanfare, set to music, preferably with people dancing and looking deeply spiritualContinue reading “Jack Black Evangelism”
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