Tag: Politics

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    Jesus and the Power, Part 5

    What will you do with your life? The world needs kingdom-minded Christians now more than ever. This is from p. 89 of Jesus and the Powers, and it is a great question I have carried with me for over 30 years. Where does the Spirit want to have me active in the work of the Kingdom in this world? What…

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    Jesus and the Powers, Part 3

    Notes from NT Wright and Michael Bird’s, Jesus and the Powers. The problem of political power is rooted in the beginning. In creation. God set humanity in place to bring order. The problem is humanity keeps getting in their own way. The history of the Old Testament leaves us in a quandary:

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    Jesus and the Powers, Part 2

    NT Wright and Michael Bird don’t deny the certain benefits of Christendom, but they also dive into the destructive use of power in that time period as well. We have to reach for something more.

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    Jesus and the Powers

    Jesus and the Powers by Wright and Bird is a book we are using in a book club at our church in July. Since I am going back through it, I will be posting some thoughts on my notes, which will probably be repeats of pasts posts I have forgotten I posted when I first read the book…

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    Away with violence

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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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    Political and spiritual involvement

    One of the words we toss around without understanding the definition is “secular.” When it comes to being in the public square, it is a misunderstood (and abused) word. In Jesus and the Powers, Wright and Bird draw a clear picture of true secularism, where government is useful to allow religious voices to be heard but not dominating, and non-religious…

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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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    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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    A fresh way to identify as a Christian in America?

    Two pieces in Christianity Today caught my eye because they took opposite sides in what to do about being called “evangelical.”