Category Archives: kingdom living

Christian fruit smoothies

In response to a recent comment on Facebook about Greg Boyd’s “Animate” sermon series on imaginative prayer, I commented: I’d like to throw the fruit of [Greg] Boyd, Rob Bell, Gorden Fee and Eugene Peterson into a big Christian Life blender and see what comes out – that ought to be a big time Spirit-led, [...]
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Election is not about heaven…

“Election is not about who gets to go to heaven; election is about who God chooses [...] to bring healing to the world.” – Brian McLaren, Christianity Today (2004)
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Questions when I hate to read the Bible

In my professional life, I am currently faced with learning a new software package. It is a niche program for our industry and unfortunately the only training is through a company that we compete with on some levels, though not directly. Enough so, however, that our management doesn’t want to send money their way for [...]
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How much do you have to hate someone?

I don’t know if this video made it around the blogs in the last few months, but it was used as an illustration point a month or so ago at our church and I thought it was worth sharing. Regardless of what you think about Penn Jillette (Penn & Teller) as an atheist, his question [...]
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Spiritual and social worship

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), [...]
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Does dissonance disturb you?

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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Faith and works: two judgments?

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 [...]
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The end of a movement?

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 [...]
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Thrown out of the throne room

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 [...]
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Should Christians be having babies?

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 [...]
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  • Words wither and blogs fade away…

    Forgive me if you’ve heard this song before, but I've decided to stop blogging at He is Sufficient. I truly appreciate all of the wit, wisdom and words of faith that you have shared with me over the past few years. I wish you well in all of your endeavors, whatever they may be and wherever they may lead you. “God is sufficient for the needs of His people”. Amen!