(Picture sourced from here Because the Church and State are two separate entities and serve two different functions — the State serving to keep justice in the land, the Church serving to love others sacrificially — Christians can hold different political / economical opinions and yet still work together in the same Kingdom, because the …
In the World But Not of the World: Ideologies Do Not Rule Us Read More »
Not exactly the most pleasant of topics this, but it was milling around my mind this morning. God commanded in the Old Testament that people be stoned to death for various sins. Stoning is an incredibly brutal way to die, and it seems rather crazy that God should ask people be stoned — sometimes for …
I don’t know much about Ed Stetzer, but I admit I found a blog post of his very interesting lately and will probably mill around his blog more. At any rate, I wanted to quote a few paragraphs from the blog post I particularly enjoyed. Read the full post here. Evangelicals have tended to try …
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(The Resurrection of Christ by Irina Kolbneva, see www.arthit.ru) Eph 1: “…what is the immeasurable greatness of his power to us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ [Messiah] when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, …
The great thing when you are falsely accused of doing something (I have been falsely accused of doing something recently) is that it reminds you of how Jesus must have felt when he was falsely accused of all sorts of things, both in his life and towards the end, and was ultimately crucified as a …
This is a post I’ve put up at the Emerging Africa site. See the conversation there at www.emergingafrica.info. Note that I don’t consider myself to be emerging or Emergent (or anything for that matter besides Christian) but I converse with brothers and sisters who do. Having given some praise in my last post about the …
I’ve started (at last) listening to the audio of the Amaharo conference, which was held in June in South Africa. Roger Saner has very kindly put up the recordings of the event here The talks I’ve listened to so far are: Edward Simiyu – The ministry of presence Kelly Nikondeha – The Amahoro story Postcolonialism …
Soteriology (the theology of how we are saved, so to speak) is not an uncomplex discussion. You’ve got “Calvinists,” “Arminians,” “Free Gracers,” “Catholic,” “Orthodox” and the more recent “faithfulness” guys (they haven’t found a label yet. But, what they believe, in the end, is that your salvation depends on how faithful you were to God… …