a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
I really like what Will Samson had to say about John MacArthur’s most recent attack on the emerging church (specifically Doug Pagitt). More thoughts from me after the quote… John MacArthur on The Emergent Church: “This gives us the chance to say that we are so committed to unity in the Body of Christ that [...]
Scot McKnight’s stepping out into a potentially controversial topic… politics. I’m probably voting Green Party again, so I didn’t respond in the comments. If I did vote Democrat, right now it would be for Obama. The reason? I like most of his ideas, his heart seems genuine, and I haven’t been too impressed by anyone [...]
Do Wives Need to Submit to Husbands? pt 4: “Now-hear what I’m saying and don’t hear what I’m not saying. The Gospel has serious claims on our lives on the ways we treat others, on our relationship to sex, to money, to power- and sometimes those claims are going to be offensive. But the point [...]
Jesus’ humanity is often looked at as a stumbling block to his divinity. As I read about Jesus and study the nature of God, I’m finding more and more how Jesus the man shows us God. Scot McKnight got me thinking about the term “flesh” to describe Jesus’ humanity. Normally, we think of the flesh [...]
I’m a little late to the party, but I want to point out Brother Maynard‘s advent blogging collective. I haven’t been able to get his widget to work just yet, but hopefully the posts will soon start appearing in my sidebar. There seems to be more of a buzz about “advent” this year. Perhaps it [...]
advent > what are we waiting on? So, our waiting now is a liturgical waiting, a waiting of reminder. Our waiting now is also a mystical waiting, a waiting on the inside for God, for Jesus, for our Savior as the Holy Spirit gives Him to us, in many different ways. We hear this, perhaps, [...]
Having formerly pastored an established church, I can relate to wanting to know what a visitor’s perspective on our worship services and programs is like. The church I was at was very small and didn’t have the human resources for a great production. It was very modest worship and then the Alan show for a [...]
Michael Spencer hits the nail on the head with the problem of being too politically focused, whether you believe your politics are correct or not. Christians focusing on the political realm for the salvation of the world will develop a pessimistic attitude towards the future and cause them to lean towards solutions which do not [...]
I’ve had a draft stuck in my WordPress for quite some time. I finally went back to reread the post, and I realized it was just about ready to go. So… with only a few edits because a blog I referenced is now defunct, here’s a little on “paradigm thinking”: To add a little humor [...]
Dan Kimball has been doing a series called “Hot Theology” in the worship meetings for his church in Santa Cruz. Through a poll of the church body, difficult theological topics were targeted. Last week, Dan ventured into the difficult subject of hell. Here’s a portion of what Dan had to say: I stressed how we [...]