Henry Neufeld comments on his need for both spiritual and social worship:
The idea of being spiritual without a social aspect bothers me. The more I study, the more I see the command to love God and to love one’s neighbor as almost identical. This week’s lectionary text, Matthew 25:31-46 (The Sheep and the Goats), brings [...]
Be sure to check out Greg Willson’s blog for a pair of excellent posts on using jazz to understand Christianity and the freedom of our lives within and outside creedal boundaries:
Creeds and Freedom or The Jazz Rhythm Section and the Soloist
When We Play Wrong Notes
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Our pastor made an interesting proposition yesterday, one that I’ve been leaning toward for a while now, but was still rather intrigued to hear it voiced from the pulpit. As Christians in the Protestant tradition, we accept that salvation by faith alone is a fundamental tenet and set aside any notion that our works have [...]
Cal Thomas, a conservative political columnist and evangelical Christian, has written an excellent article about the future of the “Religious Right” on its upcoming 30th anniversary as a movement (HT: Peter Kirk).
Here are some excerpts:
Thirty years of trying to use government to stop abortion, preserve opposite-sex marriage, improve television and movie content and transform culture [...]
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The relationship between Satan and Heaven is an interesting one to dig into. One popular view is that Satan led a revolt of angels in pre-history and was in opposition to the Creator from the start, such that the serpent in Eden was the physical embodiment of Satan. Yet throughout the Old Testament, we see [...]
In his book, In the End - The Beginning, Jürgen Moltmann notes the following consequences of Jesus fulfilling the role of Israel’s messiah and the savior of the nations:
Because Jesus has come as the promised son (Isa. 9.6), there is no longer any need for religious or legal privilege to be given to fathers and [...]
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I recently ordered and received a used copy of Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love on the basis of several recommendations, including these Amazon.com reviews:
_Works of Love_ by Kierkegaard is the most uplifting, encouraging, and hope-restoring book I have ever read. Kierkegaard’s statement that “the greatest act of love anyone can ever achieve is to mourn [...]
In the video from yesterday’s “blood moon” post, Steve Hadley mentions that he originally saw this material presented by Mark Biltz, a messianic Jew with a church in Washington state. After digging around the original GodTube.com posting, I discovered the name of Biltz’s ministry… are you ready for this?
El Shaddai Ministries
At least that’s more on [...]
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Recently I’ve been moving away from reading theological blogs. It’s not that I find theological nuances uninteresting, but too often the discussions are just words to me and I don’t see evidence of them bearing fruit in my daily walk. So rather than continue in that personal wilderness, I’ve been trying to take a more [...]
HT: more fire
The New York Press has a compelling story about a communal Christian house in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn) run by blogger Jason Storbakken:
[They] are taking part in a form of cohabitation that few young New Yorkers could fathom: communal living with a religious twist. [...] It is a multiracial bunch, mostly made up of non-native [...]
