‘A Great Cloud of Witnesses’: All Saints Day Reflection
While we’re busy carving pumpkins and collecting candy this weekend, November 1 will be All Saints Day. More familiar toContinue Reading
Jesus-shaped Perspectives. Anchors for the Soul || Pastor Jeremy Berg
While we’re busy carving pumpkins and collecting candy this weekend, November 1 will be All Saints Day. More familiar toContinue Reading
Listen to Greg Boyd share his wisdom and insight 3 times per week. Recognized in 2010 as one of the 20 most influential living Christian scholars, get to know Greg and his profound theology through his Q & R podcast hosted by my friend Dan Kent.
We think the kingdom comes by taking responsibility, putting in the blood, sweat and tears, grabbing life (and faith) by the horns. This is life, faith, and ministry under the heavy yoke. This is the pathway to burnout, bitterness, and disillusionment with God and religion. This is doing God’s work without God’s presence and power.
Fundamentalists are passionate to defend their narrow grasp of 1% of reality, while more adventurous learners scratch their heads and wonder why they don’t want to explore the other 99% together.
Last night my 5-year old asked, “Daddy, if Jesus lives in Heaven, and he’s going to bring us there when we die, then why did he put us on Earth at all?”
In “The Fire That Consumes”, E. W. Fudge places the textual evidence front and center in the Hell debate.
The greatest tragedy that has befallen Western Christianity over the past few hundred years is the chopping up of the drama of biblical story into cold and sterile propositional truth claims. If there’s one gift I’d love to give everyone I meet or minister to, it is the gift of grasping the Big Story of the Bible in narrative form and the thrill of discovering their unique place in the unfolding plot.