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The best way to write a bestseller is to have a compelling, action-packed narrative. In the Christian market it seems the best route to take is to buck accepted wisdom, to tell everyone that what they thought was a good idea really isn’t and that what we should do is overhaul our lives. This isn’t [...]
[HT Ruth Institute Blog]
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Here is a snippet from a comment series on a previous post that I thought was worth highlighting: Incest was necessary given the nature of God’s creation of human lineage. And polygamy and concubines run rampant in the Old Testament among those deemed righteous. Incest is not unnatural in the biological sense. One could, and [...]
Brian McLaren, a rockstar pastor in California, describes “A New Kind of Christianity”. However when he’s done deconstructing every central tenet of Christinaity as defined by Scripture, its quite clear that what he’s really offering is something completely different he’s calling Christianity.
A friend of mine recently asked me what I made of John 1:11-13: He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, [...]
After listening to John D Caputo’s interview by Luke Mulenhauser on commonsenseatheism.com (mp3) I decided to get John’s book, What Would Jesus Deconstruct, and see what sort of case he could build for postmodern Christianity that would compel emergent pastors like Brian McLaren to endorse it. I first encountered JackCaputo’s writings in the introduction to [...]
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[HT Matthew Rathbun] One of the current cultural Pastors that I most admire and listen to is Matt Chandler out of Village Church in Texas. He’s insight and delivery are outstanding. In October he did a sermon on “God and Sex”. I’m sharing this on this site, because I think it’s one of the most powerful discussions [...]
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Materialists are fond of claiming that all of our knowledge comes to us through our 5 senses. Supernatural is above or beyond nature. Any belief in a realm that isn’t knowable though our 5 senses. Or al least able to use a provable method of advanced conceptualizing that ties back to our senses and is [...]
A rather interesting discussion on Facebook began when a friend of mine posted the following: The Prince of Peace also is the holy, righteous, and just God of wrath. Justice is the reason for wrath Justice, not wrath. In order for God to be a “God of wrath” there would need to be something for [...]
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Felicity Dale has written an excellent series of posts intended to answer the question “Do organic/simple churches believe in leadership?”. Here is an excellent video which I believe summarizes what the Bible teaches with regard to leadership in the Body of Christ: Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the [...]
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