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Liberated from Legalism 6
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Scot McKnight
Once again, we have been set free in Christ and the Spirit is adequate to guide us into all God wants of us. Again… Legalism is any practice or belief that is added to the gospel that compromises the sufficiency of Christ as Savior and jeopardizes the adequacy of the Spirit in moral guidance. Legalism…
After You Believe 3
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Scot McKnight
The question, what do you do after you believe, is the subject of Tom Wright’s new book: After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters . Today I want to examine what Tom sees as the three ways Christians have framed what we are to do “after we believe”. Questions: Are these the big three for…
Will Jesus Buy Me a Double-Wide?
By
Scot McKnight
I may be biased toward Southern writers, and I may be biased because I’m a fan of Karen Spears Zacharias, but the truth of the story is this: her next book, Will Jesus Buy Me a Double-Wide?: (‘Cause I Need More Room for My Plasma TV) , needs to be read by twentysomethings and by…
Eugene Peterson: Practice Resurrection 6
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Scot McKnight
Eugene Peterson, in his new book, Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ examines the poetic significance of Ephesians 1:3-14, one long, long sentence in Greek — and it’s all about God. (I post the passage after the jump.) “201 nouns and verbs, adverbs and adjectives, prepositions and conjunctions cascading off Paul’s pen!” (55).…
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