Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Divide away

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I have seen God use good theology to liberate lives. But I have also seen people misuse theology, resulting in abuse, hard hearts and pain. ...
Monday, June 29, 2015

The cross beckons us

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The Sermon on the Mount is not law that can save us; it is, rather, the texture of the life of those who have died with Christ and are now m...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

What would the early church do?

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Yesterday SCOTUS decided that same-sex marriages were legal. So, I ask, "What would the early church have done if the emperor had allow...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Costly Grace

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Grace is costly, then, not because it is an idea; it is no principle, program, or doctrine. Grace is costly because it is a person; it is th...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

More than head knowledge

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Bonhoeffer was aware that the situation in which these young pastors would find themselves in the future would be one of great challenge, a ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Invite them to dinner

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Youth workers are like plumbers called in to fix a leak, to fill the gap, but rarely do we invite the plumber fixing the gap in our bathroom...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

But where is he?

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He [Bonhoeffer] asserted in his dissertation and embodied in his ministry that it is not in the institution of the church that Jesus Christ...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Fear not!

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Anxiety, as neuropsychologists today tell us, is toxic; our brains are wired to avoid anxiety. Anxiety corrupts the chemistry of the brain a...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Institution or community?

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In our own day children’s and youth ministers seem to be working so hard to include children in the church, debating issues like children in...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Tired of the market-oriented approach to Christianity?

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Today we see broad evidence of Christians seeking these historic Christian experiences in worship. Tired of market-oriented approaches that ...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

What exactly does sola scriptura mean, anyway?

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Recent scholars have pointed out that for most historic and contemporary Protestants, sola scriptura does not mean that the Scriptures are ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Arghh!

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I have not been a fan of Microsoft Word since version 1, way back in 1983. I always preferred either WordPerfect or WordStar (or more specia...
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Zwingli was right, for a change!

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Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) emphasized that the Spirit of God empowers Christians to understand the Bible, and he taught that an uneducated p...
Monday, June 15, 2015

This is wrong

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Even conversion among Bible-focused Christians is understood to be individual: one individual has a “personal experience,” connecting the pe...
Friday, June 12, 2015

Sola? or prima?

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The Reformers insisted on sola scriptura , though we have already seen that they often cited the church fathers as they discussed Scripture....
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

One church?

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The notion of one church in one world, still held by East and West even after their separation in 1054, gave way to a variety of denominatio...
Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Umm, your heroes used it! Tradition, that is

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The mainline Reformers, therefore, did not reject the tradition, but rather the abuse of tradition that exalted the papacy and the magisteri...
Monday, June 08, 2015

Listen to Aquinas

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Nevertheless sacred doctrine makes use of these authorities [Church Fathers and tradition] as extrinsic and probably arguments, but properly...
Friday, June 05, 2015

Huh? Say that again slowly

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We see here the developing belief that the Scripture extends to items outside of itself, though the canon of Scripture does not. The canon o...
Thursday, June 04, 2015

Who can intercede?

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From a forthcoming SBL book, Is There a Wisdom Tradition? New Prospects in Israelite Wisdom Studies , chapter 10, "How Wisdom Texts Bec...
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