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Conspiracy of Grace
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xscot mcknight
Just finished a book many of you probably have already read, Michael Yaconelli’s Messy Spirituality. Very much along the line of Yancey’s What’s So Amazing about Grace?, Yaconelli’s book is disarmingly honest and filled with stories that ring true about the presence of grace. Here’s a central theme in a quotation: Spirituality isn’t about being…
Kingdom of God 4
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xscot mcknight
Today’s text is Matthew 11:2-6. John the Baptist, in prison, gets disciples of his to find Jesus and ask Jesus if he is “the one who is to come” or not. (Note: “the one who is to come” is from Malachi 3–4, and it is possible that Jesus actually says “no, I’m not that one…
Kingdom concerns today
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xscot mcknight
As if blogging on Kingdom of God as society is not enough, Books and Culture brings to us today a nice study on what we really know about how influential Evangelicalism is on the Bush Doctrine. Whether you agree or not, this piece is worth looking through. And this piece by Stephen Carter from Christianity…
Searching for the Place called “Over”?
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xscot mcknight
In thinking through what it means to be “missional,” and in reading some stuff about it, I came across John Burke’s No Perfect People Allowed and blogged about it already. But, a book that tells the story of what is often called the liminal is a good read for many of us. Liminal refers to…
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