> In honor of Thanksgiving week and families sitting around tables and living rooms talking… I thought it would be fun to take a week off out normal topics and talk about how we talk about what we talk about! I seem to run into the same odd glitch in almost any conversation I attempt … Continue reading »
Posted in November 2010 …
>The Kingdom Comes : in 3-D !
>Buried deep in the hot & heavy give and take of this weekend’s conversation – in the fallout of the Friday followup was something that I really believe and don’t want to be lost as comment #10 in a 20 deep running tally. I have modified it slightly so that it doesn’t read like an … Continue reading »
>Friday Follow up – Jesus was not violent
> The conversation has been wild this week – both on the Blog and on Facebook (which I could not be in on this week). I wanted to thank all of those who contributed so much. I appreciate the full table when everybody brings something to share! I wanted to tell a story and go … Continue reading »
>Jesus is not Violent
> When we talk about God as Christians we are not talking about a generic conception of God. As Christians we believe in a very specific concept of God, one that was most fully revealed in the person and work of Jesus Christ. For people that believe in Jesus and call themselves Christians, I think … Continue reading »
Interesting thought
I had the privilege of being a part of a group called Arrow Leadership [link]. I also got to attend a Young Leaders gathering held by the Laussanne movement [link]. as Laussanne prepared for a massive gathering in South Africa last month, Carson Pue, the president of Arrow, wrote an interesting little article about it. … Continue reading »
>Friday Follow up – Relational Religion
> Two things that I wanted to follow up on – one brought up by Wanda on Facebook and one brought up by Joe on the blog. Luke gets my comment of the week. Wanda asked if there was a difference between being born sinful and being born full of sin. That is an interesting … Continue reading »
Thinking about Theology
by Bo Sanders I was really challenged by this post entitled “The New Orthodoxy” on Homebrewed Christianity. Over the past several years I have grown to have a very different understanding of Theology and indeed the entire theological enterprise than I had before. Here is what I posted there (in the comments): I like how … Continue reading »
>Relational Religion
> There are three significant implications for reading the Bible relationally. The first has to do with prayer. The second has to do with the original sin. The third has to do with Pentecost. by Bo Sanders Prayer Prayer is a relational thing. We pray for people … Continue reading »
>Relationship
> There is a reason that relationship is so central to our religion, to reading the Bible, and to prayer. We will focus on prayer next week, but this week I wanted to look at the relational aspect of reading the Bible as a tie-in to what we have been talking about for the past … Continue reading »
>Religion in America
> I am fascinated by what is going on right now in Global culture and in North America. There is great research behind what Robert Putnam is saying. His take on the Culture Shocks from the 60′s, the after-shock reaction of the Religious Right in the 80′s and the current reaction to this by … Continue reading »
