Here is a book that received my “happy face” seal of approval (the highest honor possible). Roger Olson’s Reformed and Always Reforming: The Postconservative Approach to Evangelical Theology (Baker Academic, 2007).
Some of us are thinking different theologically. Sometimes it feels like we are on shaky ground, but this way of doing theology seems […]
In case you don’t know, Eddie and I follow the lectionary for these weekly comments. The last church year spent a majority of its time in the Gospel of Luke. With this new church year, beginning with this, the first post in Advent, will focus primarily on the gospel of Matthew. I never […]
At first read the book would seem to have little to do with leadership defined according to the criteria of modernity. It is rather an account of a personal journey in engaging culture. When one grasps the fact that leadership in a postmodern context is more about defining reality and the struggle of relating personally […]
When I read and meditated on this familiar story I began to hum the words of the African-American Spiritual, “Were you there, when they crucified my Lord?” Then I thought, “If I had been there, whose company would I have been keeping?” Luke’s account focuses on the various groups and individuals present at Calvary.
Read the words of Jesus , really read the words of Jesus and it is very difficult to come up with an idea that the lifestyle of a disciple of Jesus is an easy one. Again, in this passage, Jesus warns his followers that they are called to a difficult task, not for the faint […]
The front cover highlights the intention of the book in reclaiming the mission of the church from: big Business, Parachurch Organizations, Psychotherapy; and Consumer Capitalism. It provides thoughtful chapters on defining success, evangelism, leadership, worship, preaching, justice, spiritual formation and moral education.
One tactic adopted by those endeavoring to debunk belief in the resurrection is to set up a hypothetical scenario designed to ridicule belief. For instance, the story is told of a tribe of cannibals who attacked and consumed a neighboring tribe who happened to be Christians. On a subsequent occasion, these cannibals were themselves converted […]
