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Suffering was inevitable for Peter’s powerless Christian parishes. Peter has one clear point of view: any suffering ought to be the result of being a Christian. It is summed up in bearing the “name.”

First, keep the battery charged. I got to the airport last Friday, our flight was delayed for a good long while, and so I called the pastor of the church we were going to (Eastpoint Community Church), and realized it was my last call of the day: the battery went out on me.

In Dave Miller’s new CD, Dave Miller, explores in song how we as Christians can look at our work and turn it from labor to vocation. What got me going about these songs was the confidence of the voice when talking about Jesus the worker and the wonder , even melancholy, when it comes to…

In the second part of Shults’ chapter on facing, forgiveness and salvation, Shults looks at what the Christian tradition means by forgiveness. Shults seeks here to liberate the idea of forgiveness from judicial metaphors and make room for the reality that forgiveness “really changes lives” (125). If you had to define forgiveness, how would you…

Peter is working out a theology of how to live as a Christian in Roman Empire, as powerless Christians in a world that God loves, and he is no pie-eyed dreamer. “Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice that…

Some of you may recall that I griped about a commercial that Kraft Foods used for A1 sauce, and how Kraft used someone who switched his prisoner number with someone on death row in order to get to eat a steak with A1 sauce. Well, a blogger (Hooman Hedayati) must have read my post and…

Donald Miller tells us, and I saw it in his new book To Own a Dragon, that he writes his books in coffee shops. But I want to talk about Dave Miller‘s new CD, for in it he’s got a song he’s written about drinking coffee: “Coffee” the song is called. I’m thinking Donald Miller…

Whichever view of 1 Peter 4:7 you prefer, it is nonetheless clear that Peter’s motivation is to ground the need for the powerless churches of Asia Minor to live properly. As Peter’s theology for the powerless is worked out here, it is a theology that resonates with an eschatology. Some today are embarrassed by the…

I wrote a third post, about the article of David Mills, on the Criswell Theological Journal‘s edition on the emergent church movement recently, then tossed out the paper copies and it rained on them. Today it is clear that I made a mistake because that post is not here. So, this one from memory on…

1 Peter 4:7: “The end of all things is near; therefore be …”. In technical studies, we call this “eschatological ethics.” That is, an ethic (“therefore be…”) that is rooted in and derives from a sense that history is about to close its door, that it is about to be wrapped up in a grand…
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