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Center your life in Christ on the cross
Greg Boyd’s book, The Crucifixion of the Warrior God, moves toward Boyd’s particular view of the “Cruciform Hermeneutic.” But before he gets to that…
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Origen and the power of the cross
Boyd draws heavily on Origen when setting up his proposal for what he calls the Cruciform Hermeneutic. Origen doesn’t explain away the violent passages of the Old Testament. He has a way of looking at them that brings us to the “lens” of the cross.
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The determination of one holy passion
They will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God their Savior. 6 Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, God of Jacob. (Ps. 24:5-6)
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The body of Christ — we need each other
1Co 12:26 — 1Co 12:27 If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if one part gets the glory, all the parts celebrate with it. You are the body of Christ and parts of each other.
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Early thoughts on 1 Corinthians
We are on 1-2 Corinthians this week at Heights Church. Some early thoughts in 1 Corinthians:
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The Old Testament God and Violence
“Contrary to the overly generalized and sensationalized description of the God of the OT provided by (other authors), people who read Scripture sympathetically generally find that the God of the OT is by-and-large a relational God of hesed (i.e., covenant-love) who continually strives to bring all people — first the Israelites, and then, through them, all the ‘families of the earth’…
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Discipleship is about radical love
“… I would argue that the instruction to love enemies is ‘the very genius of Christianity.’ And this ‘genius’ command mandates nothing less than that we are to demonstrate to all people the kind of love God demonstrated toward us while we were yet enemies (Rom. 5:10; Eph. 5:1-2). This is precisely why, after defining the kind of love that…
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Empowered by the Spirit… and groaning
Romans 8:18 (Common English Bible) I believe that the present suffering is nothing compared to the coming glory that is going to be revealed to us.
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The Flag, the Anthem, the First Amendment
I’ve been to a few baseball games this year. I’ve kind of sworn off of NFL games, but not because of Colin Kaepernick. It traces back to the arrogance of the NFL, willfully ignored the concussion issue, and I could go on about that.
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Book Review — God-Soaked Life: Discovering a Kingdom Spirituality
The book begins with: “Imagine the day after your death.” You have my attention.
