Grace For All People
Just saying… All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, O Lord; they will bring glory to your name. (Ps 86:9) Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. (1 Ch 16:34) “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.” (Joel 2:28) The LORD will lay bare his …
Doubts About Grace
Yesterday I had a very intense conversation with a good friend about hell. Not the location but the state. You see my friend had fallen into hell, grasping to the last shred of evidence that she was worth it, yet just as willing to give in to the reality that she wasn’t. She could understand the idea that God loved …
Who Is The Real Judge
Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, John 5:22 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:17 We are!
Grace Is Not Fair
Author, Brené Brown ht: Jeromy
Defending God’s Right To Keep You IN?
It seems to me that in a lot of the spin regarding Rob Bell’s book, an interesting thing happened. Much of the dialogue suddenly turned to people defending people’s choice to exclude themselves from heaven. Yet the tension Rob is really confronting is God’s need (or our historical orthodox position) that God keeps people out. What say you?
Rob Bell Actually Believes In Hell
Here’s proof. There he said it folks. Are you happy?
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 …
Heaven And The Kingdom Of God
Over at iMonk, the theologians are arguing over faith vs. works. I tend to stay out of those conversations because I think they are ultimately unproductive. But I wanted to call out something and get your response. Jeff Dunn, who is the publisher for iMonk quotes the following passage. This isn’t the first time I have warned you, you know. …
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 …
