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Tag Archives: N. T. Wright
Which Gospel? Introduction, Part 4
Sexually pure gospel Watch enough 24-hour news shows and pretty soon you’ll see some evangelist interviewed. The subject will be sex — abortion, divorce, homosexuality, abstinence. It’s as though the only thing Jesus taught us was to keep our pants … Continue reading
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Tagged All, core gospel, gospel, N. T. Wright, Pat Willimon, Resident Aliens, Stanley Hauerwas
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Which Gospel? Introduction, Part 1
This series is based on a great article in Preaching Today. The author, Skye Jethani, addresses the turmoil in the modern evangelical church over how the gospel should be preached. In most conservative, American Protestant churches the gospel has been … Continue reading
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Tagged All, gospel, gospel of creation, gospel of evil, N. T. Wright, political gospel, therapeutic gospel
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Surprised by Hope: What the Whole World Is Waiting For
The First Century Church had no notion of inevitable human progress, nor did the early church consider the creation evil or something to be escaped. Rather, the early church taught a very different view. Wright traces three major themes — … Continue reading
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Tagged All, eschatology, N. T. Wright, new earth, new heaven, Surprised by Hope
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Are We Sacramentalists? The Creation
In a previous post, we considered the verses that teach that God acts on us, through his Spirit, as we study the Bible. This makes Bible study — or listening to the word taught or preached — sacramental, as a … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Christian environmentalism, N. T. Wright, sacramentalism, sacraments, Simple Christianity
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Are We Sacramentalists? Marriage as a Sacrament, and the Church
Recall Hicks’ definition of “sacrament”– The material elements do not merely represent, but they participate in the reality to which they point. They are not mere signs, but symbols that mediate a spiritual reality. The signs become symbols because God … Continue reading
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Letter to a Gay Man in the Churches of Christ, Part 4
There are many theories on how the meaning of the passages dealing with homosexuality could be interpreted and I have read the gay side of the story and the idea that the scriptures have been mistranslated or have lost their … Continue reading
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Letter to a Gay Man in the Churches of Christ, Part 1
Readers, I received an email requesting that I post something on being gay in the Churches of Christ. I’ve split the email into 8 parts, to fit my answers more closely to the reader’s questions and because his poignant email … Continue reading
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The New Perspective: Where Are the Dead Before the Second Coming? Part 2 (Modern Physics and the Second Coming)
To this point, we’ve seen that the dead in Christ are most commonly described as being asleep until the Second Coming–the End–when the old earth and old heaven will be destroyed, the living and dead will the judged, and God … Continue reading
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The New Perspective: Where Are the Dead Before the Second Coming? Part 1
In the previous two posts, we considered the idea that at the end of time, after the Judgment, God and the New Jerusalem will come down to a renewed and purified earth, where we will dwell in new, imperishable, incorruptible … Continue reading
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A Communion Meditation Reflecting on the New Perspective
We struggle sometimes with even talking about the Lord’s Supper. We want to avoid any accusation that this is some sort of “sacrament.” We want to make this event purely, 100% symbolic. But when we do that, we say that … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Baptism, communion, eschatology, heaven, Holy Spirit, judgment day, Lord's Supper, N. T. Wright, new perspective
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