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The deep joy of God
I am working on synthesizing some thoughts from two books: The Spirit of Our Politics by Michael Wear and Jesus and the Powers by NT Wright and Michael Bird. There are three areas I am covering to put together some thoughts on how we are are live as Christians in America. (NOT American Christians. Note the difference.) There are the…
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Downing Street doesn’t ‘do God’
NT Wright and Michael Bird in their new book, Jesus and the Powers, deal with living out faith in government life as one aspect of faith and faithfulness to the Kingdom of God. They tell a story of Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain. In one interview, a journalist was asking Blair about his faith and before Blair…
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The Kingdom of God is FOR this world
I am currently working my way through NT Wright and Michael Bird’s new book, Jesus and the Powers. It is some “prep” for this election season. More than that, it is necessary prep for how to lead in the church in a time when we face serious upheaval. We will have deep divides. The nastiness is very real. How do…
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Encountering the possibility of what IS to come
We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— 2 this life was revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father and…
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A vision of hope
If there is any word that best describes my feeling in this election year it’s this: Exhaustion
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Jesus won’t be king like you want
15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself. (Jn. 6:15, NIV)
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Serving God in the ordinary
We look for the spectacular. God looks for the faithful.
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The kingdom of God and suffering
In the past few weeks I’ve had a similar question posed to me: “When did you come to faith?” My answer has been a bit longer because I honestly can’t remember a time I wasn’t aware of Jesus in my life in a way where I knew he was there and I was somehow following him.
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The heart of Christian theology
“Here, then, we are at the heart of Christian theology. God made humans to be his stewards, reflecting his wise image in the world, so that he might himself come into his world as the ultimate steward of creation… Humans were made as appropriate vehicles for God’s self-expression in his world.” (NT Wright, Into the Heart of Romans, p. 53-4)…
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The depth of our existence
NT Wright has been instrumental in reconfiguring my theology on the Kingdom of God. How I think about heaven and eternity and the depth of my existence has been deeply formed by NT Wright and Dallas Willard in the past few decades.
Tag: Kingdom of God
