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Kevin Sweeney accepted our invitation to submit material for the Jesus Creed blog and I think you’ll like this one. (Next week we’ve got a provocative post by Chrissi Wright.) What do you think of his proposal? We Can’t Get Closer to God   Anybody who has at some point encountered the reality of God…

A letter from a reader, to which I responded in private. Permission was granted for publication of this letter. Scot, I hope this email finds you healthy and well.  I am looking for some guidance or help working through a theological question(s). In the last few days/weeks/months I have increasingly been wrestling with a theology…

Continued from yesterday. Our second point: Jesus said that all these things would occur before that time. Let me set this comment in context. In Matt 23:36 Jesus said to his followers this: “Amen, I say to you, all these things will come about upon this generation” – and he is speaking of the avenging…

James looks into the eyes and hearts of the oppressed and poor messianists, now scattered from home and facing oppression at the hands of the rich — the odds are against them. He looks at them and tells the to keep their heads up because God is good and God will make things right SomeDay.…

As announced last week, Chris Folmsbee will blog at Jesus Creed about youth ministry. I’m keen that we develop more sensitivity to youth ministries and ministers, and Chris is at the cutting edge of what is going on. The more I thought about the conversations surrounding last weeks post on re-thinking mission in youth ministry,…

In the HBO series “John Adams,” Adams calls Abigail, his wife, My Friend. He says she was his number one ballast; she was his advisor; and friend. What one word best describes your relationship to your ministry spouse? What one word would your ministry spouse use to describe your relationship? Scot McKnight’s response: when it…

These words are in red in most of our Bibles because they are from Jesus: 37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe…

This is the third in our brief (and much more needs to be said about all kinds of terms and verses — like “prophetic” vs. “apocalyptic”) sketch of a partial preterist view of Mark 13. This view, I’d like folks to know, is not new — it is in fact old. Modern scholars who argue…

We can’t analyze these three verses in James 1 all at once, but I want to provide the text today and offer a couple of comments: 13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14 but each one is tempted when, by…

We saw a bumper sticker the other day that, however much of a sound byte approach to a profound issue, said: “Guns cause murder the way gnats cause garbage.” OK, that’s clever. But we can read on most any web magazine today about the man who murdered a pastor in a church near St Louis…
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