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Violent Thinking
Category: General
Tags: Enemy Love, Non-Violence, Violence
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence
When most people think of violence, they think of physical violence. But the truth is that our actions are only violent because our hearts and minds are violent first. For this reason, Jesus emphasizes purging…
The Radically Distinct Kingdom of God
Category: General
Tags: Enemy Love, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of this World, Nationalism, Violence
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence
Yesterday, we posted a video where Greg mentioned the radical distinction between the kingdom of God and the governments of the world. The following explains this distinction further. Nothing is more important to the cause…
Our True Eternal Home
Category: General
Tags: Discipleship, Identity in Christ, Jesus
Topics: Following Jesus
In becoming our sin and bearing the death-consequences of sin, Christ has opened the way for us to participate in the fellowship of the triune God. Because of the cross, we are now free to…
What Jesus Revealed About Being Human
Category: General
Tags: Cross, Jesus, Love, Salvation, Sin
According to the creation story, when Adam and Eve ate the fruit, they essentially ceased being the wonderful, God-centered, God-dependent human beings the Creator intended them to be. They became less than fully human. Instead,…
3 Traits of a Jesus Kind of Church
Category: General
Tags: Church, Judgment, Love, Mercy
Topics: The Church
A Jesus kind of church (See an introductory post on this here) is called to represent God, just as Christ did. The church is Christ continuing to manifest the true God. Bonhoeffer put it this…
A Jesus Kind of Church
Category: General
Tags: Church, Judgment, Love, Religious Idolatry
Topics: The Church
The church can only be the conduit of God’s love if it stops judging others (See yesterday’s post). This means that it will stop being concerned about its reputation in the eyes of those who…
The “Rising Revolution” Conference
Category: General
Tags: Upcoming Conference
Are you a person or group that has awakened to the truth that the kingdom that Jesus inaugurated looks much more beautiful than the traditional Christendom model of the Church? Have you caught the vision of…
New Feature: We Need YOU!
Category: General
Tags: Community, Fun, Hope, Inspiration, Lighten Up
For the last several years we’ve been running a feature every Friday called Lighten Up. It was fun for a while, but it’s gotten harder and harder to find light-hearted, relevant content. That’s where you…
A Brief Theology of Salvation
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Cross, Evil, Redemption, Salvation
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement
In the NT, one of the most frequent and fundamental images used to depict our salvation is “redemption.” The root of this term lytron means a “ransom” or “price of release,” and the term itself…
The Most Quoted Old Testament Verse
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Cross, Power, Salvation, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
No other passage from the Old Testament is quoted more by New Testament authors than Psalm 110:1. Its frequent citation should cause us to pay attention to what is being said. It reads: The Lord…
The Cross and Cosmic Warfare
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Christus Victor, Salvation, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Since the time of Anselm in the 11th century, Western theology has focused almost all of its attention on the anthropological dimension of the atonement. In the most popular understanding, the chief thing that God…
It’s All About the Crucified Christ
Category: General
Tags: Cross, Cruciform Theology, Easter, Love
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
The world was created by Christ and for Christ (Col 1:16). At the center of God’s purpose for creation is his plan to unite himself to us in Christ, reveal himself to us through Christ,…
The Hope of the Cross & Resurrection
Category: General
Tags: Already Not Yet, Cross, Easter, Eschatology, Hope, Resurrection
In a real sense, God has already “raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms” (Eph 2:6). And while “we do not see everything subject to [us],” the truth…
Love Never Stops
Category: General
Tags: Hope, Love, Resurrection
Greg reflects here that he can be a very cynical person if you ask him about the state of the world around us, but the love of God demonstrated in the Easter narrative gives him…
The Cross Reveals God’s Love
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Cross, Cruciform Theology, Easter, God, Jesus
The central way Christ functions as the perfect image and exact representation of God is by dying on the cross. While Christ’s entire life manifests the true God, Christ came primarily to die. It was…
Palm Sunday, Partisan Politics & the Power of the Cross
Category: General
Tags: David D. Flowers, Easter, Politics, Upside-Down Kingdom
Today we’re sharing something from David D. Flowers that we found especially insightful as we approach holy week. We hope it blesses you and moves you to more fully manifest the kingdom that is not…
A Brief Theology of Hearing God
Category: General
Tags: Hearing God, Imagination, Prayer
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
It is sometimes assumed by modern readers that when believers in the Bible heard a message or saw a vision while praying, it was something people perceived with their physical eyes and heard with their…