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Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: Conversion
We’re discussing Scot McKnight’s latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. Conversion Now, the A-B-A’ way of telling the scriptures’ story has certain implications. For example, if the plan is for God to be king, … Continue reading
Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: The Bible in Two Stories
We’re discussing Scot McKnight’s latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. Scot points out that both the local church and academia have learned — finally — to read the Bible as story. One such story … Continue reading
Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: Social Justice
We’re discussing Scot McKnight’s latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. Changing culture Scot challenges the Pleaded Pants and Skinny Jeans assumption that Christians should be about changing the culture of the world as Kingdom … Continue reading
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Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: Pleated Pants
We’re discussing Scot McKnight’s latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. In contrast to the Skinny Jeans kingdom approach, Scot speaks of the Pleated Pants theorizing of academia. A little more completely, [the Pleated Pants … Continue reading
Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: Skinny Jeans
We’re discussing Scot McKnight’s latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. In the last post, we considered the various Millennial theories. In contemporary evangelical discussions, however, the idea of “kingdom” has been discussed in very different … Continue reading
The Denomination Blues, by Buddy Greene
Heard this on the way to Knoxville and couldn’t resist posting.
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Gone to Knoxville
I will be eating at the Peddler, visiting Smokey the Bear at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and watching Alabama make some history at Neyland Stadium. I’m taking my laptop but won’t be very active in the comments. See … Continue reading
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Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: Introduction; Millennial Theories
I’m a Scot McKnight fan, and I’ve just received a copy of his latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. (I had to pay for mine.) And it’s some kind of big deal. I … Continue reading
Bible Software: A Comparison, Part 2
Smartphone features Both Logos and Accordance provide a free iPhone application that connects to your software package. Again, Accordance has the superior interface, making it easy to download translations, commentaries, and other resources to your phone. Greek word studies are easy on … Continue reading
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Bible Software: A Comparison, Part 1
Christmas is not far away, and so I figure it’s time to offer a few recommendations regarding Bible software programs. What would possibly make for a better Christmas present? I am very fortunate to have a copy of each of the four … Continue reading
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