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Our Missional God 4
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xscot mcknight
How does the theme of judgment … or, how does knowledge of God as judge open up the missional theme in the Bible? This is the question of the second half of chp 3 in Chris Wright’s The Mission of God and I thought this section was both intelligent and insightful.
Car Advice
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xscot mcknight
OK Jesus Creeders, I’m countin’ on ya. Last Saturday, on our way to a student’s wedding, we got rear-ended and our RAV4 got smashed up pretty good. (We didn’t make it to the wedding.) No one was hurt, though we were sitting around a bit Saturday and Sunday waiting for some unwanted stiffness. It never…
Heaven 15
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xscot mcknight
My little computer program boots up about 19 separable instances of “heaven” in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. And we begin with a text that is at the center of a few debates today, in particular the nature of the ascension and the Second Coming.
Australian Consolation: Anger
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xscot mcknight
In 2006 Moore Theological College in Sydney Australia held a conference on the consolations of theology and Brian Rosner edited the papers into a little book worthy of pastoral considerations. The title is The Consolations of Theology. Six studies of human realities — anger, obsession, despair, anxiety, disappointment, and pain. But the approach is to…
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