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What Does Spiritual Warfare Have To Do with the Cross?
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Cruciform Theology, Jesus, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Last week, we covered a few posts on the nature of the Atonement and the Christus Victor view. The following continues this theme, specifically looking the motif of spiritual warfare and how it relates to…
Atonement, Christus Victor, & Aslan Pt 2: Who Demands a Kill?
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, C.S. Lewis, Christus Victor, Chronicles of Narnia, Penal Substitution View of Atonement
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
For part 1 of 2, click here. It’s important to notice that it was the wicked Queen, not Aslan, who demands that Edmund be killed in accordance with the Deep Magic of justice. Christian’s have…
Atonement, Christus Victor & Aslan
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Christus Victor, Chronicles of Narnia
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
No one illustrates this Christus Victor view of Christ’s work on the cross more beautifully than C.S. Lewis in his famous fantasy, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. The gist of the story is…
Beautiful Ruins
Category: General
Tags: Beauty, D.L. Mayfield, Kingdom Living, Listening, Missions, Solidarity with the Poor, Upside-Down Kingdom
H. Raab via Compfight If you want to read something today that is beautiful and challenging and unsettling, read this. D. L. Mayfield moved a couple of years ago with her husband and daughter from…
Is Racism Still a Problem? Does the Church Care?
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Mennonerds, Myth of a Christian Religion, Racial Reconciliation, Racism
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Cliff via Compfight On Friday, we posted a piece by Greg on the importance of racial reconciliation in the Kingdom of God. (Click here to read it.) This is a part of the Synchro blog…
Jesus & Racial Reconciliation
Category: General
Tags: Church, Kingdom Revolution, Mennonerds, Racial Reconciliation, Racism, Social Issues
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Lorenia via Compfight If you were to read an account today of a white man offering his front row seat on a public bus to an elderly African American lady, you’d probably think this was…
Some News and a Giveaway!
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Current Events, Newsletter, ReKnew
We’ve got some exciting news for you. Starting next month, ReKnew will be sending out a monthly e-newsletter to those who are interested in getting a little something extra from our ministry. We’ll be including a…
Is the Bible a Legal Textbook?
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Bible, Fundamentalism, Salvation
Olga via Compfight Too much theology treats the Bible as if it were legal textbook. In the following except from Benefit of the Doubt, Greg addresses the problems when we approach theology and Scripture this way….
Court-of-Law Theology: How It Falls Short
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith, Theology
Courtney “Coco” Mault via Compfight Last week, we introduced a way of talking about theology with concentric circles. This approach is distinct from the common Western model of theology that depends upon a court-of-law framework….
Lighten Up: Love Your Enemies
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Daniel Erlander, Jesus, Lighten Up, Love Your Enemies, Manna and Mercy
Image from Manna and Mercy by Daniel Erlander
Why the “Try Harder” Solution Fails
Category: General
Tags: Fruit of the Spirit, Seeing is Believing, Transformation
Mike via Compfight So much social media interaction is shaped by conversations about what people should or should not do or how people should or should not think. This seems to be even worse within…
In the Face of Blueprint Words
Category: General
Tags: Blueprint Worldview, healing, Henry Kelley, Hope, Jessica Kelley, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Many of you know Jessica Kelley through the posts we’ve featured about her on the ReKnew site. She is someone we’ve come to love very much. Jessica lost her five year old son Henry to…
How Should We Do Theology?
Category: General
Tags: Approaches to Theology, Bible, Revelation, Scripture, Theology, Wesleyan Quadrilateral
Topics: Theological Method
Delirious? via Compfight In yesterday’s post, we introduced a way of talking about theology with the use of concentric circles. At the center, is the revelational of Jesus—most keenly revealed on the cross. The next…
How To Talk about Theology
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Cruciform Theology, Debate, Problem of Evil, Social Media, Theology
Topics: Theological Method
Social media is full of theological debate. Theological arguments that formerly took months or even years to get in print, now only takes the time to write a post or 140 characters and click “publish.”…
By Chance or By God
Category: General
Tags: Apologetics, Evolution, God, Letters from a Skeptic
pure9 via Compfight Is the world here by chance? Are we a product of an impersonal force that got the ball rolling and then history came about in what could be described as an “accident”? …
Lighten Up: Square Peg, Round Hole Theology
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: God, Lighten Up, Theology
This comic was featured in The Bohemian Bowmans. If you don’t follow them, you probably should check them out. They’re great.
Cross-like Love and Non-Violence
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Discipleship, Enemy Love, Kingdom Living, Love, Non-Violence, Pacifism
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Cosmo Spacely via Compfight Though it seems to have been forgotten by many today, the cross wasn’t simply something God did for us. According to the NT, it was also an example God calls us…
Listening Like a Hostage Negotiator
Category: General
Tags: Belief, Donald Miller, Empathy, Listening
Pedro Ribeiro Simões via Compfight It seems like from the moment we become Christians we’re taught how to present an argument and defend our beliefs. But not many of us are taught how to listen…
On Renunciation
Category: General
Tags: Jesus, Love, Renunciation, Sacrifice
Jonathan Kos-Read via Compfight We are bombarded daily with messages that urge us to satisfy every desire we might have. That’s what consumers do. And that’s exactly what the world has reduced us to: consumers….