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A Response to Tony Campolo on Fighting the Powers: Some Final Thoughts
Category: General
Tags: Politics, Tony Campolo
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
In my previous post I argued against Tony’s claim that God expects governments to carry out his will and that Christians are therefore to influence government to carry out this task. I rather argued that,…
Sermon: The Dependent and Those Who Mourn
Category: General
Here’s a short clip of Greg’s sermon from last week: You can download the full sermon and other sermon resources by clicking here. The sermon description from Woodland Hills: God designed us to get all of…
A Response to Tony Campolo on Fighting the Powers
Category: General
Tags: Politics, Spiritual Warfare, Tony Campolo
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
While I have nothing but admiration for Tony Campolo, I differ with his views on how Christians are to be change agents in the world. He has always been a strong proponent of Christians bringing…
Shane Claiborne on How Bad Theology Can Be Deadly
Category: General
Tags: Non-Violence
David D Flowers shared this video over at The Centrality and Supremacy of Jesus Christ and we thought it was worth sharing here too. Theology matters.
The Way We Disagree Matters
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Kingdom Living, Peacemaking
Rachel Held Evans posted her reflections on the ways we interact over differences in Biblical interpretation. It’s an important topic as we live out the kingdom among one another in our polarizing environment. How do…
Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Politics
These things need to stop as it relates to our faith and our politics. Image by Katie Tegtmeyer. Sourced via Flickr.
Quotes to Chew On: Experiencing Truth
Category: General
“Many Christians have learned that they need to “be transformed by the renewing of [their] minds” (Romans 12:2) and have been taught that this involves telling themselves the truth about who they are in Christ…
Lighten Up: Theology
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Humility, Lighten Up, Theology
I stole this from a reader’s Facebook page. (Thanks Kevin.) It’s good to remember that we don’t really have it all figured out.
How Much Is Enough?
Category: General
Tags: Finances, Kingdom Living
Richard Beck over at Experimental Theology wrote a reflection on insights he gained from the book How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky. He points out how the advent…
Sermon: The Salt and Light Revolution
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Sermons
What does it mean to be the salt and light? In Greg’s sermon last weekend, he explores how followers of Jesus can step out of the crowd in ways that bring these good things to…
On Hacking Off Our Own Limbs
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living
Nadia Bolz Weber posted this weekend on The Sarcastic Lutheran, and we thought you’d enjoy her thoughts on hacking off our own limbs for Jesus. Don’t worry, you won’t have the urge to find an axe…
Q&A: Already-Not-Yet
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ, Kingdom Living, Quantum Physics
Question: My question is regarding our “entanglement” with Christ that you spoke about a few weeks ago. In the sermon you noted how we are joined with Christ like those two particles that can be separated by light…
Lighten Up: Smile
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Lighten Up
Go ahead and smile. What do you have to lose? It will make you feel and look better and it’s free. Image by Neal Fowler. Sourced via Flickr.
Speaking of “the Poor”
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Poverty
D. L. Mayfield wrote this guest post on Love is What You Do titled The Language of Poverty. How do we think of and interact with “the poor” on a daily basis? Here’s some good…
Quotes to Chew on: How First Century Jews Came to Worship a Man
Category: General
Tags: Books, Jesus, Quotes
“Legends do not generally arise in contradiction to fundamental convictions held by the culture of those who create and embrace them. Yet if the Jesus story is largely a fictitious legend, this is exactly what…
For the Bible Tells Me So?
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Fundamentalism
Oh, those pesky fundamentalists are at it again. Should it be legal for parents to execute their rebellious children based upon Deut 21:18-21? This guy thinks so. And he’s a Bible-believing Christian who is a candidate…
Sermon: The Pygmy Way
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Sermons, Woodland Hills Church
Last weekend Greg preached about the history of Woodland Hills Church as a part of the church’s 20th anniversary. It’s a pretty fun walk down memory lane as well as a challenge to follow the…
Change the World
Category: General
Greg will be speaking at the Change the World Ginghamsburg Missional Conference, October 18-19 in Tipp City Ohio. Why would you want to attend? “Because life is way too short & the mission too critical…