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Boyd’s Bad Ass Tattoo
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, Open Future, Open Theism
Topics: Free Will and the Future, Open Theism
…what it all means in my next post. In this post, I just want to share my experience of getting my first –and, I strongly suspect, my only – tattoo. Even before Alan Rhoda put the finishing touches on the Hexagon by connecting the altern and sub-altern relationships, I promised…
What is your stance on abortion?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Abortion, Kingdom Living
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
…— including for the unborn. The Uniquely Kingdom Approach to Abortion The unique Kingdom approach to abortion doesn’t focus on figuring out the “right” political solution, getting “the right” candidates into office or getting the “right” bills passed. As with everything else about the Kingdom, it rather focuses on manifesting…
Part 19 (of 20) — Peterson’s Most Controversial Interview
Category: General
Tags: Jordan Peterson
…I have a dear friend whose son was getting very interested in Peterson, so she got on the internet to do a little research on him. Unfortunately, this interview was the first thing she came upon. She found Peterson in this interview to be so offensive that she said she…
Racism: Why Whites have Trouble “Getting It”
Category: Essays
Tags: Diversity, Essay, Kingdom Living, Racism, Social Issues
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
…box people in, the lower one goes down the pyramid. And this is why, all other things being equal, whites have trouble “getting it.” We simply aren’t aware of the walls. Indeed, many of us deny there’s even a pyramid that we’re at the top of. This is, after all,…
The Jesus Seminar and the Reliability of the Gospels
Category: Essays
Tags: Apologetics, Essay, Gospels, Jesus, New Testament
Topics: Jesus: Lord or Legend
…have concluded,” and “scholars now realize” etc., giving the impression that these liberal scholars are representative of what most people who specialize in the field think. They aren’t! Indeed, the conclusions of the Jesus Seminar participants, and of others getting the bulk of the media attention today, are usually representative…
High Priests in Caesar’s Court?
Category: General
Hello fellow thoughtful bloggerites, Well, I’ll just start by saying I’m delighted Marcia has decided to unilaterally disarm. She has put down her swor… uhr… camera and taken up the cross. Admirable. But it was just getting fun! (If you bloggers could eavesdrop in on our small group for a…
A Critique of Eller’s Thesis
Category: General
…modern day anti-war protesters, as I noted in my post on 3/29). So, even by Eller’s own analysis, it seems Yahweh succeeded at the harder task (viz. getting his warriors out of their “Nimrodian” mindset) but failed at the easier task (viz. getting them to refrain from killing). 3. The…
Craigie: The Problem of War in the Old Testament, Part I
Category: General
…is not a God who’s afraid of getting dirty! According to Craigie, something like this must be said about God’s involvement in war in the Old Testament. It reveals that the all-holy God of perfect love is not above getting his hands (and reputation) dirty by working in and through…
Suggested Further Readings for MYTH OF A CHRISTIAN RELIGION
Category: General
Tags: Books, Creation, Myth of a Christian Religion
…the field of spiritual disciplines. As I repeatedly state in the “What can we do?” section of The Myth of a Christian Religion, regularly practicing the spiritual disciplines is indispensable for getting all our life (worth, signficance, security) from Christ. And unless we’re getting all our life from Christ, we…
Escaping the Feeding Frenzy of “The Flesh”
Category: General
Tags: Flesh, Idolatry, Life, Life in Christ
…is this eternal dance brought down to “earth as it is in heaven.” When we’re not getting LIFE from our relationship with God, we inevitably try to get it from people and/or things in our environment. We become addicted to idols, which are anything we use to derive our ultimate…
Get LIFE!
Category: General
Tags: Christian Life, Idolatry, Life, Life in Christ
New Life, Plant, Other We must always be aware of the fact that there is a constant lure toward idolatry in our demonically-oppressed world. It is profoundly easy to be getting all one’s LIFE from Christ and to be completely free of idols one day, but begin to be gripped…
The Flesh: 4 Things to Know
Category: General
Tags: Adam and Eve, Life, Shame, Sin
…a strategy for getting life. Whenever we perform as a strategy for getting life, we have to hide every aspect of ourselves that is inconsistent with this strategy. And whenever we hide aspects of ourselves, we are in the process of destroying ourselves. —Adapted from Seeing is Believing, pages 35-47…
Getting Married or Buying a Car?
Category: General
Tags: Faith, ReKnew
…transaction that leaves the parties unchanged, while a covenantal pledge to entrust your life to another and to be trustworthy toward another fundamentally alters the people involved. It’s the difference between getting married and buying a car. Unfortunately, we live in a litigious, contractual, consumer-driven culture in which covenants are…
Getting Honest about the Dark Side of the Bible
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Honesty, Jesus, John Calvin, OT Violence
…this material is to be interpreted such that it bears witness to God’s unfathomable love revealed on Calvary. As with all matters of faith, the place to start is by getting honest with ourselves, each other, and God by admitting the obvious. It was when I got to this point…
Is Jesus Unique?
Category: Essays
Tags: Apologetics, Essay, Jesus
Topics: Jesus: Lord or Legend
…abandoned by scholars because the evidence for it was so scanty. Recently, however, a few of the scholars that are getting media attention, such as Burton Mack, have attempted to resurrect it. In his popular book, The Lost Gospel, for example, Mack argues that the apostle Paul formed “a spirited…
Finding an Alternative Jesus
Category: Essays
Tags: Apologetics, Essay, Jesus
Topics: Jesus: Lord or Legend
…hold to this date. But a number of scholars who are now getting a good deal of press argue that a good portion of its material pre-dates the Gospel material. Crossan, for example, argues that some of this material goes back to the earliest stage of Christianity (30–60 A.D.), a…
The Case for Women in Ministry
Category: Essays
Tags: Church, Essay, Women In Ministry
Topics: The Church
…first week of my class she’d been “coming under a spiritual attack.” She said the devil was tempting her because she kept getting a mental picture of herself doing what I was doing — teaching theology. Other times, she reported, she actually got mental pictures of herself preaching in church….
Trinity and Process
Category: General
…I made the whole dissertation about Hartshorne and just threw my Edwards material into the last chapter. I’ve always planned on getting back to Edwards in order to develop my own “dispositional ontology ” using his thought as a spring board. But other projects keep getting in the way! Someday…
Shouldn’t preachers rally Christians to fight political injustice?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Politics, Q&A, Social Issues
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
…getting anything done for the Kingdom. As citizens of the U.S. who get asked our opinion about what Caesar should do, we can express our opinions as best as we see fit. Try to understand the issues surrounding poverty and everything else and make the best choices you can. But…
When does salvation happen?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Q&A, Salvation, Security
Topics: Death and Salvation, End Times
…in a covenant framework. “Getting saved” isn’t like signing up for an insurance policy (the legal framework). It’s like getting married (the covenant framework). Salvation (= kingdom wholeness) begins with a covenant pledge and it grows as one lives out that pledge day by day. We are the “bride” of…