January 24th, 2009
Sola Scriptura is the rallying cry of the Protestant Reformation, but it never rang true for me. I was never a Lutheran or a Presbyterian. Forgive me, but I was raised Episcopalian–that middle way between Catholicism and Protestantism–and then went Ayn Randian for a while, then back to Jesus through the Jesus movement, shaped mainly by a Jewish believer who didn’t have a dog in the Catholic-Protestant fight, which was a Gentile brawl.
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Tags: authority, Ayn Rand, Catholic, church, fear, fundamentalism, jesus freak, Jesus Movement, Lutheran, Mt. Tabor, Presbyterian, protestant, Protestant Reformation, sola jesus, sola scriptura
Posted in jesus brand spirituality | 27 Comments »
January 19th, 2009
I stumbled into a concern for the environment. It’s not something I sought out. It was thrust upon me. And my interest in this topic is fueled by my concern for the gospel, which has been getting a bad name of late. For good reason. Because we pastors have allowed the gospel to become polluted by political ideology.
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Tags: babel, climate change, environment, flood, genesis, Hal Lindsey, Jesus Movement, Late Great Planet Earth, natural law, noah, politics, pope, rush limbaugh
Posted in Uncategorized, environment | 16 Comments »
January 9th, 2009
This question of identity and how we understand ours as Jesus followers is important. It’s fraught for a reason. We’d like to think it’s all about convictions. If I have X convictions then I’m an X. If my convictions are Y then I’m a Y. As usual we think we’ve got more control over this than we do.
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Tags: barbie, batman, brian martin, c.s. lewis, convergent, converging, duck, duckling, emergent, emerging, evangelical, evangi-mergent, evangie, fuller theological seminary, george eldon ladd, haskell stone, iditarod, imprinting, Jesus, ken, plymouth brethren, radical reformation
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January 5th, 2009
Evangelical, what’s in a name? It’s funny how you get these names. I don’t recall signing up to be an evangelical. It just happened. Well, not quite. I was a Jesus freak. But you can’t escape history, especially not with a religion whose founder was God coming into history and wearing it like a tool apron. Who would want to take off what he put on? So you find yourself or that community of people that you’re part of, I don’t know, slowing down just long enough to let history catch up with you.
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Tags: billy graham, buddhist, evangelical, flannery o'connor, good news, identity, immoral minority, Jesus, jonathan edwards, literary grotesque, moral majority, politics, psychatric diadnosis manual, reynolds price, shibboleth, theology, wedge issues
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January 1st, 2009
Nine years ago today we were all breathing a sigh of relief about the Y2K disaster that didn’t materialize. Evangelicals more than most. Because for some reason many evangelicals and fundamentalists bought the idea that the world was headed for a techno-cataclysm. Why would we be so alarmed by Y2K and so apathetic about the environmental crisis we are facing, including climate change?
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Tags: apocalyptic, bulbar wheat, climate change, climatologists, enviornment, evangelicals, evolution, I.P.C.C., media, meterologists, science, thomas friedman, Y2K
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