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This is a series of blogs, over a couple of weeks, about James Houston, The Mentored Life. It is being written by both of us, Scot McKnight (at North Park University) and Brad Bergfalk (pastor of Zion Covenant in Jamestown, NY). Houston’s book has received some rave reviews and it can be of use to…

Ask your average Christian, all across the map — and I mean from the Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholic to the Protestant low-church evangelical, what is the gospel and you will get one of three sorts of answers? First, some will say that the gospel is the redemption of God through Christ that is…

From Carl Sandburg: Henry C. Deming, Congressman from Connecticut, reported that when Lincoln was asked why, with his obvious interest in religious matters and his familiarity with the Bible, he did not join a church, Lincoln replied: When any church will inscribe over its altars, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior’s condensed statement…

Here is a (slightly edited) letter from a former student. This is why I like teaching. What’s up Mr. McKnight, how have you been? how’s life? I see you got another book out, I’ll probably read it. Anyways life after college is great, I mean you can’t imagine how much fun I’m having. Everyday I…

One would think a question like that would be easy to answer. What is the gospel itself? How do tracts present the gospel? How do churches present the gospel? How do you understand the gospel? Over the next week or two I’ll be examining this question. It would be good for each of us to…

Just in case you missed it, that baseball game between the Braves and the Astros was a National League beauty, the likes of which the American League would never know. And that, my friends, is the argument for why the NL plays baseball and the AL “hit”ball. Did you ever see Roger Clemens bunt or…

I didn’t get to this yesterday, and Marko has already given me a heads-up on my behavior, so here it is:

I will begin tomorrow a series of blogs with Brad Bergfalk on James Houston, The Mentored Life: From Individualism to Personhood. We’ll post something a few times each week until we are done. In addition, I’ll begin blogging now on Embracing Grace, as it is due to be out in about a week — in…

If there is anything clear about the emerging movement, it is this: the gospel is proclaimed by performance. So, it should not surprise that these articulations, which are themselves laced together with “action” type statements, are now tied together with a global commitment to action. This sets the stage for us to reflect on how…

I haven’t heard any official rain information about the Yankees deciding to cancel their game today, a game which could have seen the Yankees taking the deep bow in front of millions. But, knowing such fatalities, they up and cancelled their game. It rained the other night in Atlanta, and those teams played. The Cubs…
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