Why I’m Going To Hell
I had a thought the other day. If God’s judgment leaves someone out of the Kingdom of Heaven, which can be rationally described as hell, then I’m going to hell. Did I get your attention? Here’s why I’m going to hell. The broad assumption in evangelical Christianity is that in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, one must speak …
What Would Jesus Get On The Myers-Briggs
I have a love/hate relationship with personality tests. Yesterday I asked the question on Twitter: What would Jesus get on the Myers-Briggs test? I got a lot of responses but they all came out very similar. Rachel Held Evans summed it up very simply with, “Whatever I got, right? ” She was obviously being humorous, but the problem is that …
Straight From The Horses Mouth
To understand this post you might need to review the previous two posts here and here. I said: And with that I began to realize why people have so many theological disagreements. Our faith is in our interpretation of Scripture, as opposed to Jesus. As much as I love Scripture it’s Jesus once removed. I find it interesting that Ken …
Dwight Friesen On Being Perfect
Be Perfect from The Work Of The People on Vimeo. Perfection is about seeing people the way God does. Boooyah!
Can A Child Do It
One of the things I really love about Jesus is that he focused so much on engaging what my friend Kathy would call, “little pockets of love.” He engaged people’s faith but arguably spent more time simply loving on people in their space of brokenness. Matthew 18:3 – And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become …
Straight From The Horses Mouth
I was thinking about the word “Christian” when I came across this quote: All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words. The better, however, any such word is fitted for the needs of humanity, the sooner it loses its poetic aspect by commonness of use. It ceases to be …
The Forgiveness Of Sins
Why is there such a tension with grace? This past week Jay Bakker, son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, was profiled in The New Yorker. The article surprised me in some respects because it was a profile on an emergent perspective. It’s a fair feature piece on a guy who has been to hell and back, and then chose …
What Is Obedience?
What is our understanding of obedience in the kingdom of God? What are we being obedient too? In a previous post I talked about Following Jesus Is About Healing. And one of the pushbacks or responses I got was the idea that following Jesus is about obedience. And I get that. I actually don’t disagree with that statement. Following Jesus …
What Do We Mean By “Jesus Is Lord”
Alan Hirsch: Overview of the DNA of Movements [VERGE video] from Verge Network on Vimeo. What is your understanding of the phrase, “Jesus is Lord.” What does it mean to you and perhaps consider what it means to your community?
Following Jesus Is About Healing
What is the principle purpose of following Jesus? One of the tensions I have come to reflect deeply on is what could be argued as the mission of the church. When we follow in the footsteps of Jesus, what are we learning, doing, seeing, feeling, and getting to? What is the central purpose of the mission of God? I have …
