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Ideal World or The Kingdom of God?

Several years ago, I taught a class on Christian Ethics at the local Moody Extension School. Through my studies, I became more convinced of my suspicion that the Church is mistaken when they make evangelism or even some "tend the culture" mandate they think they have into a matter of clashing moralities. I frequently say that Christianity is not a morality.

I am reading To Will & To Do by Jacques Ellul and he is making similar… Continue

Pining Away for the Same Kingdom, Different Day

A recent article in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society caught my eye, titled Literacy and Biblical Knowledge: The Victorian Age and Our Own by Timothy T Larson. Dr Larson argues, as shown by the main title, that the poverty of modern society’s biblical knowledge places them at a disadvantage in understanding literature and not just literature which contain biblical themes or references. Unfortunately, as indica… Continue

Here is a blog which I think nails the root of something quite wrong with the right wing rhetoric. I look at what the "Christians" are doing in the political arena these days and they have lost their moral voice. Even as they screech about gays and abortion, they are swallowing whole another brand of eugenetics. Here is a portion: Yet as bizar… Continue

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, (Proverbs 18:21)

A couple of weeks back, I went to visit my family. While there, my brother told me that my high school choir director died that week at 82. First some history.

It may surprise you to know that when I was seventeen, I was loud and obnoxious. Very smart, very opinionated, but not very knowledgeable or focused. We’ve all known teens like this, if not been teens like this. (Side note: One time Mary said “From what you’ve… Continue

Jesus was speaking to a crowd and in the group, a lawyer who upon hearing that the law said to love your neighbor asked “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him up, and went off, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, but when he saw the injured man he passed by on the other side. So too a Levite, when he came up to the place and saw him, passed by on th… Continue