Showing posts with label Simply Christian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simply Christian. Show all posts
Friday, July 21, 2023

Why settle for less?

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Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

The why of Christian sexual ethics

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Christian sexual ethics, in other words, isn’t simply a collection of old rules which we are now free to set aside because we know better (t...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Ain't it the truth! : (

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Throughout the early centuries of Christianity, when every kind of sexual behavior ever known to the human race was widely practiced through...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

The irony of an emperor

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But the fact that we can’t ever earn God’s favor by our own moral effort shouldn’t blind us to the fact that the call to faith is also a cal...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Living with the authority of scripture

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Living with “the authority of scripture,” then, means living in the world of the story which scripture tells. It means soaking ourselves in ...
Friday, July 14, 2023

Why I don't like words like inerrancy

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That is why, though I’m not unhappy with what people are trying to affirm when they use words like “infallible” (the idea that the Bible won’...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Grow? Or shrink? Choose one

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So what happens when you worship the creator God whose plan to rescue the world and put it to rights has been accomplished by the Lamb who w...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

You become what you worship

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This brings us to the first of two golden rules at the heart of spirituality. You become like what you worship . When you gaze in awe, admira...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

It's a love game

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But it would be a mistake to give the impression that the Christian doctrine of God is a matter of clever intellectual word games or mind ga...
Friday, July 07, 2023

By the power of the Holy Spirit alone

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I have sometimes heard Christian people talk as though God, having done what he’s done in Jesus, now wants us to do our part by getting on w...
Thursday, July 06, 2023

A waste? Or Surprise! I'm alive!

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Nothin in all the history of paganism comes anywhere near this combinatlon of event, intention, and meaning. Nothing in Judaism had prepared...
Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Bringing the kingdom—to the "wrong people"!

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The whole point of Jesus’s work was to bring heaven to earth and join them together forever, to bring God’s future into the present and make...
Monday, July 03, 2023

Rescue operation?

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If this was a rescue operation, it was one with a difference. It wasn’t a matter of the God of Israel simply fighting off the wicked pagans a...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Intervention? Or loving care?

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For the pantheist, God and the world are basically the same thing: the world is, if you like, God’s self-expression. For the Deist, the worl...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Made for each other, but…

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We are made for each other. Yet making relationships work, let alone making them flourish, is often remarkably difficult. That is the same par...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

A central element of faith

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It is important to see, and to say, that those who follow Jesus are committed, as he taught us to pray, to God’s will being done “on earth a...