A few of the gears in my head came into alignment and I decided to tackle the topic of idolatry. The earliest Christian proclamation of the Gospel was “Jesus is Lord,” which packs a whole lot of meaning into a short phrase once you unpack it.
The implications of “Jesus is Lord” is that Caesar is not. […]
Archive for February, 2007
Jaclyn and I are currently reading through Alan Hirsch’s “The Forgotten Ways” together. What I love about this book is that it lays out what many have been saying and feeling for some time now: the church in the West must relate to the culture it finds itself in as cross-cultural ministries; no different than […]
For anyone interested, here’s the first post in this series, which has links to all of the rest of my Wright reflections.
There are many jumping-off points of interest in this short little book. The thoughts on reason being submitted to the authority of scripture that I mentioned in my last post have been especially fruitful for […]
This book disappointed me, especially in this: I had hoped that it would magically solve all of my problems with understanding the Bible’s authority in a short 139 pages. I am deeply offended that it did not accomplish this aim!
That said, Wright does offer an interesting insight on how to deal with the Scriptures in relation […]
One of the major divides in the church today is those who interpret the Scriptures literally, and gay-loving liberals who are going to burn in hell. At least, that’s what the “literal” camp would have you believe. The “literal” interpretation of Scripture is traced back to the Reformation, which any good Protestant venerates as the […]
I blogged a while ago that I was reading N.T. Wright’s “The Last Word” and that I’d share some of my thoughts as I went along. Well, I haven’t done much on that, because it’s been mostly been sitting idly by. Today I realized that I had a bunch of time unencumbered by those nasty […]
