Note from CM: Back in 2015, I was reading the book mentioned below, and offered this post as part of my response to what I was absorbing from it. I’ve edited this in an update for today. • • • And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things toContinue reading “Another Look: A More Grounded Gospel”
Category Archives: The Gospel
Monday with Michael Spencer: On Transactionalism
Monday with Michael Spencer On Transactionalism I am setting out to do something that is unlikely to be extremely popular. I am writing a theologically tentative essay about a word most of my readers have never heard and an issue I’ve only heard one other person discuss. Why this word would inspire serious theologizing onContinue reading “Monday with Michael Spencer: On Transactionalism”
Richard Beck on Weakness and the Spirit
Note from CM: Thanks to Richard Beck for his series on Paul and the Law at his blog, Experimental Theology. Here is a tremendously insightful post on Paul’s concept of “the flesh” that opens the door, in my view, for a much richer, deeper, and broader understanding of salvation. • • • Richard Beck onContinue reading “Richard Beck on Weakness and the Spirit”
Damaris Zehner: Evangelizing in a Time of Collapse
Evangelizing in a Time of Collapse Damaris Zehner The Church’s task is to make the Good News attractive and comprehensible to our audience, and that activity changes with time and place. Because what people believe about the world around them will affect how they hear the Gospel, there are two challenges to all of usContinue reading “Damaris Zehner: Evangelizing in a Time of Collapse”
Sundays in Easter: The Very Good Gospel (6)
When Jesus talked about witness, he referred to our being his witnesses. We are to be his evidence as we show the world that the Kingdom of God has come. • Lisa Sharon Harper • • • On Sundays in Easter, we are hearing from Lisa Sharon Harper about The Very Good Gospel: How EverythingContinue reading “Sundays in Easter: The Very Good Gospel (6)”
Sundays in Easter: The Very Good Gospel (5)
Shalom says we all are connected. Every relationship created by God is strung together in a web of intimate relationships. To affect one is to affect all. So when our distrust of God leads us to separate ourselves from God, we also are separated from ourselves. We govern ourselves in our own ways, not inContinue reading “Sundays in Easter: The Very Good Gospel (5)”
Sundays in Easter: The Very Good Gospel (4)
God is our home, and from birth to death, the whole of our lives is a journey to return home. • Lisa Sharon Harper • • • On Sundays in Easter, we are hearing from Lisa Sharon Harper about The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right. Her book is about theContinue reading “Sundays in Easter: The Very Good Gospel (4)”
Sundays in Easter: The Very Good Gospel (3)
Sin is not about the personal imperfection of the self. Rather, sin is any act that breaks any of the relationships God declared very good in the beginning. • Lisa Sharon Harper • • • On Sundays in Easter, we are hearing from Lisa Sharon Harper about The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong CanContinue reading “Sundays in Easter: The Very Good Gospel (3)”
Sundays in Easter: The Very Good Gospel (2)
This is the promise of Genesis 1. The darkness is limited by the light. Suffering is not in perpetuity. The light may take generations to come, but it will come. There is always hope. • Lisa Sharon Harper • • • On Sundays in Easter, we are hearing from Lisa Sharon Harper about The VeryContinue reading “Sundays in Easter: The Very Good Gospel (2)”
Sundays in Easter: The Very Good Gospel (1)
Shalom is the stuff of the Kingdom. It’s what the Kingdom of God looks like in context. It’s what citizenship in the Kingdom of God requires and what the Kingdom promises to those who choose God and God’s ways to peace. • Lisa Sharon Harper • • • On Sundays in Easter, we will hearContinue reading “Sundays in Easter: The Very Good Gospel (1)”
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