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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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Resurrection Life
We are now in Eastertide. Let us live… truly live… in the power of resurrection life. 7 The end of all things is near; therefore be serious and discipline yourselves for the sake of your prayers. 8 Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins. (1 Peter 4:7-8, NRSVue)
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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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The defining moments of history
Resurrection. Without Good Friday there is no resurrection. The power of the weekend is overwhelming at times. But it comes down to the most essential meaning, one defined by NT Wright in this way:
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Palm Sunday — Follow the King
Palm Sunday will lead us into Holy Week. In the exuberance of Palm Sunday to make Jesus King, he calls us into the depths of what that means to follow him. Mark 1:1-11 Are we truly ready to follow him?
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Understanding true “enemies”
I came across this quote from NT Wright as I am studying 1 Peter:
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The Spirit is at work because WE are there
We are called to be people who stand at the place of pain — in the cancer ward, at the asylum-seeker’s court hearing, by the graveyard full of memorials to small children or to families whose homes have been bombed by ward — so as to be those within whose own painful perplexity the Holy Spirit will plead to the…
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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.
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I have identified the anti-christ!
I am on a fascinating journey right now that I need to stay at. (Which would be a first for me.) A few years ago I wrote a lot of notes for a would be book I would call, Living in Babylon. I still have that stack. It’s impressive. At least looking at it impresses me. This current one is…
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