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I probably get asked this question more than any other. Which means quite often. Again, used with permission and only slightly edited. Hi Scot. First, let me say that I appreciate your writing and your heart. I have used some of the pieces you have written for a leadership magazine with my staff, and I…

“God’s mercy lurks in the shadows of your life.” This is from p. 44 in 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed. One of the most revealing words in the Bible is the word “mercy.”

Pete Enns, professor at Westminster Theological Seminary, has been suspended and Christianity Today has a long article. The comments there are mostly uncharitable and accusatory, and we will have to guard the comments here carefully. So, please be charitable.

A letter from a pastor; permission granted to publish here; we are seeking your wisdom.. Scot, Hello. We met when you visited the area and I have appreciated your blog for a while now. I came to this church as pastor just over a year ago and it is my first church after graduating from…

Roger Olson, in Reformed and Always Reforming, argues that conservative evangelicalism has a one-sided emphasis on doctrinal content as the essence of Christianity and a corresponding neglect of experience. Postconservatism, accordingly, has an experiential impulse.

Where do you find God? In chp 8 of 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed I look at where Abraham found God and where we can find God anew this day.

From a reader who asks you, Jesus Creed reader, for some advice: So, I???ve been kicking around the question: What is most necessary and essential to Christian community?

John Goldingay ends the preface to volume 2 of his OT Theology (OT Theology: Israel’s Faith) with a zinger that I find to be so, so true: he gives credit to readers who have saved him “from some of my more outlandish statements. I hope some remain.” They do, and they come in his Introduction.

If preparing for Pentecost means being prepared to become the people of God, then it is good for us to remind ourselves of what kind of God we have. It is this God who acted for us on Pentecost, and in chp 7 of 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed we look — and we…

Drumroll please. This is our last kingdom text: Luke 23:42. It comes with evocative connections:
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