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God’s Dream for the World
Category: General
Tags: Jesus, Love, Trinity, Triune Love, Unity
Topics: Following Jesus
…sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me” (vs. 23, emphasis added). Jesus ends his prayer by telling the Father he will continue to make him known so that “the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in…
Is God Immutable? Part II
Category: Q&A
Tags: Attributes of God, God's Character, time
Topics: Attributes and Character
…Precisely because God is unchanging in his perfect love—he is, in this sense “immutable”—he is ever-changing in his experience of the world. Because he’s an unchanging God of love, he is deeply affected by all that takes place in the world. He is the most unchanging being in every sense…
Terror in the Night
Category: Essays
Tags: Essay, Fear, God, God's Love, Q&A, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…those movies. So you can say I am very frustrated and confused as to why this is happening to me. I love God, but I feel like this ultimate love that he supposedly has for me is fake. He’s not helping me, and I am so utterly hurt and lost….
On Renunciation
Category: General
Tags: Jesus, Love, Renunciation, Sacrifice
…orgasm. No, the reason you deny yourself is so that you can make yourself increasingly available to others. Love requires self-mastery. Love requires a denial of the self. Love requires discipline. Love is discipline. Love involves the renunciation of sin in our lives. A renunciation of wickedness and the Devil….
Do Not Fear
Category: General
Tags: Fear, Love, Politics, Religious Idolatry
…in love and live in fear at the same time, which is why Scripture says that love casts out fear (1 John 4:18). Now, as kingdom people we are called to live in love, which means we are called and empowered to live free of fear. Because our source of…
Jesus Did Not Teach Ethical Behavior
Category: General
Tags: Ethics, Judgement, Love, Repenting of Religion
…have entirely missed the point of Paul’s teaching. For Paul’s point was not that we should try hard to avoid rudeness but that we must live in love. If you are living out of the love of God, you won’t be rude. Indeed you will fulfill all the law. Conversely,…
The Holy Spirit Behind the Scenes
Category: General
Tags: Love, The Holy Spirit, Trinity
…they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. … I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me…
Atonement
Category: General
…story of lovers who are tragically separated for long periods of time, but whose love endures against all obstacles, yada yada. Didn’t happen. Two lovers are indeed tragically separated, but the movie didn’t make me care about them all that much. The movie never convinced me these two young folks…
The Cruciform Center Part 4: How Revelation Reveals a Cruciform God
Category: Essays
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Essay, Jesus, Lamb of God, Non-Violence, Revelation, Self-Sacrificial Love
Topics: Apologetics, Atonement and The Cross, Christology, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
…refusing to engage in violence against them, choosing instead to lay down his life for them. As Paul had earlier declared, the true power of God is the power of the cross (I Cor 1:18), which his to say, the power of self-sacrificial love. This is not a “pride fighter”…
The Cruciform Center Part 3: How Paul’s Epistles Reveal a Cruciform God
Category: Essays
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Essay, Paul, Paul's Letters, Self-Sacrificial Love
Topics: Apologetics, Atonement and The Cross, Christology, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
…Son’s self-sacrificial character happened when he was obedient even to the point of dying on the cross. As Gordon Fee notes; “Here is where the one who as ‘equal with God’ has most fully revealed the truth about God: that God is love and that his love expresses itself in…
ReThinking the Source of Life
Category: General
Tags: Idolatry, Life, Love, Religious Idolatry, Theology
Topics: Following Jesus
…founded in the love that God has shown us on Calvary. Because God loved us by paying an unsurpassable price, we each have unsurpassable worth, not because of what we believe, but simply because of God’s love. If we seek to get our “life” from any other source of “life”—including…
The Good News Tour
Category: General
…Heavenly Sanctuary which sponsors The Good News Tour, gave a passionate (and sometimes hilarious) testimony about how the revelation of God’s love transformed this former drug addict into a passionate disciple of Jesus. The entire conference was shrouded in God’s love and I was honored to be a part of…
Part 4: An Alternative Cross-Centered Approach
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Book Reviews, Cruciform Theology, Derek Flood, Disarming Scripture, Jesus, Magic Eye, OT Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
…5:20), and the triune God who is perfectly united in love became our God-forsaken curse (Gal 3:13; cf., Mt 27:46). Hence, John captures the essence of Jesus’ revelation of God by declaring that “God is love” (1 Jn 4:8) while defining “love” by pointing us to the cross (1 Jn…
The Cruciform Center Part 1: How Matthew, Mark and Luke Reveal a Cruciform God
Category: Essays
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Essay, God, Jesus, Self-Sacrificial Love, Synoptic Gospels
Topics: Apologetics, Atonement and The Cross, Christology, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
…abstract, for it leaves too much room for people to impose a preconceived concept of God onto him. I’ve instead argued that the NT itself gives us a much more specific criteria for understanding God when it reveals that “God is love” (I Jn 4:8) while defining “love” by pointing…
Why NO Violence in Jesus’ Name is Justified
Category: General
Tags: Enemy Love, Myth of a Christian Nation, Non-Violence, Obama, Violence
Topics: Following Jesus
…but he would not have transformed anyone’s heart. He would not have helped anyone love God or love themselves and others as people loved by God. The power of the sword, even if wielded by mighty warring angels, can never transform a person’s inner being. While the use of the…
Corrective Love
Category: General
Tags: Growth, healing, Kathy Escobar, Kingdom Living, Love, safety
drp via Compfight Kathy Escobar posted the other day about providing “corrective experiences” to those who have been hurt in the past. How many of us have approached Christians with our wounds and have been offered more of the same instead of the love and acceptance we’re longing for? How…
Vita
Category: General
Tags: Greg Boyd
…clear vision of the beauty and love of God revealed in Jesus Christ. God is a God of unsurpassable love who gives himself totally to us in Jesus Christ as the means of inviting us into the ecstatic, eternal, triune dance of love. The beauty of “the dancing God” revealed…
The “Third Way”: Seeing God’s Beauty in the Depth of Scripture’s Violent Portraits of God
Category: Essays
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Essay, Non-Violence, Picture of God, Third Way
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
…the portraits of God commanding genocide, smashing parents and children together and causing parents to cannibalize their children with the enemy-embracing, self-sacrificial God of love revealed in the crucified Christ. In my opinion, this approach is even less viable for followers of Jesus than the Dismissal Solution.[4] There are a…
When Our Images of God are Faulty
Category: General
Tags: Adam and Eve, Imagination, Picture of God, ReKnew
…standards of “good” and “evil.” If we’re going to love like God loves – which is, I argue, the ultimate point of everything – we must always remember that God alone is the judge of the world. Unlike God, we can’t love and judge at the same time. As he…
Part 14 (of 15) —Taking Responsibility (Part B)
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
…and empowered us to be; namely, individuals and communities that imitate God by living “in love as Christ loved us and gave his life for us” (Eph 5:1-2). I’m personally convinced that if Christians stopped trying to fix the world by grabbing hold of political power and simply focused on…