If there’s one thing that the doctrine of the incarnation makes abundantly clear, it’s that location matters.
This past Sunday, I was at a meeting with some homegroup leaders in our church where each of us spoke about notions we had for the coming year. When it came time for me to talk about our little group […]
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I shall wade into the waters that I (gently) stirred in Wide and Narrow. If you didn’t read it — or don’t want to now — what I basically said is that Christians tend to narrow their orthodoxy and widen their orthopraxy, which I think is quite the opposite to how things should be. I refrained from expanding on […]
For everyone who hasn’t heard, there was recently a shooter who went on a killing spree at a YWAM base and then later at a church in Colorado. A church member who had a gun took the shooter down and is being called a hero by many, including her pastor. As someone who holds that […]
Modern political theory (and this is an exaggeration!) tends to be mostly about how to do the least possible harm to the fewest number of people. It assumes that, without some type of political order, chaos will reign and we’ll be at each other’s throats. The Christian doctrine of the Fall has no doubt contributed […]
Jac and I are reading The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch very sporadically, but tonight’s session produced some particularly juicy food for thought. Hirsch contends that discipleship became very difficult during the modern period, as three powerful forces competed with the call of discipleship to Christ. These were:
The rise of capitalism and of the free market […]
Jesus the teacher of timeless moral truths.
Jesus the wild eyed apocalyptic prophet.
Jesus the political revolutionary.
Jesus the supporter of imperialism.
Jesus the supplier of my needs.
Jesus the Jew.
Jesus the blonde-haired blue-eyed Christian.
Jesus the anti-religious.
I ended my last post boldly by stating “I will be conformed to Christ.” But whose Christ to conform to? The above is simply a smattering of pictures of Jesus that one […]
