In the comments to a recent post on Al Gore, Christianity and environmentalism, TC made the following statements (quoted, but edited together - emphasis mine):
I’m all for a cleaner environment for our enjoyment and our children’s children, but where is the biblical mandate? [...] We’re told in Scripture to love ourselves and not to destroy [...]
Also posted in creation, eschatology |
Luke 20:34-36 (TNIV):
The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They [...]
Also posted in books, quotes |
I’ve gone and done something rather uncharacteristic for me: walked into a bookstore and purchased something from the Christian section. In this case, it is N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church“.
I’ve seen mention of the author many times in various blogs, but have never investigated further. [...]
The following was published today in Mikey’s Funnies, a daily humor subscription email:
CALCULATING GOD’S WILL
By Michael A. Halleen
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7:12)
John Cardinal Deardon once observed that “The designs of God are not able to [...]
Also posted in devotions, theology |
Brian at συνεσταυρωμαι has written recently about the reality of spiritual warfare and the power of prayer to destroy the strongholds of the enemy. I had written earlier about the connection between our physical condition and the unseen war - the early comments to Brian’s first post underscore this thread of discussion. (Especially regarding the [...]
Also posted in prayer, spiritual |
Building on the previous post about viewing the creation account of Genesis 1 from a functional hermeneutic rather than a structural perspective, I want ask some parallel questions, fast forwarding from Genesis to our life today.
The functional hermeneutic suggests that the things we view as structural objects to Creation, e.g. light, water, plants, animals, all [...]
“Though your sins are scarlet,
they may yet be white as snow;
though they are dyed crimson,
they may become white as wool.”
- Isaiah 1:18 (REB)
On the heels of Bryan’s recent post that Revelation 20 was John’s message of “hope, understanding, and calls for endurance” for the persecuted first-century Christians, rather than a thesis of millennialism, comes a new post from Steve at Undeception focused on the consummation of Christ’s reign and the reward of living in the Kingdom, not [...]
Also posted in eschatology |
Brilliant. The mantra (”Corporate, corporate, corporate… Paul is not writing to you!“) of a former teacher is ringing in my ears after viewing this 5-minute clip of a Gordon Fee lecture/sermon on “Being the People of God in Unity and Community”, set to visuals.
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It is so easy to slip into an individualistic interpretation of Paul, [...]
“But when they told Jacob all that Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.” (Genesis 45:27, HCSB)
In conjunction with his ongoing series on Joseph, our pastor had an interesting definition of revival that I thought was worth [...]
