Guest Post by Rick McKinley When I first started preaching I spent a lot of time pointing out what we did wrong and what we should do right. This approach starts with the assumption that Jesus died for us, rose for us, and reigns for us, and if he did all that then we should […]
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One of the things I love about Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the corrective role his words seem to be within the current context of the American Church. In that vein, his writings can truly be called ‘prophetic.’ Bonhoeffer’s small book Life Together is a great example. To a culture consumed with individualism, consumerism, materialism and too often treats
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τὰ ὄντα ἰέναι τε πάντα καὶ μένειν οὐδέν. “All entities move and nothing remains still.” – Heraclitus (as quoted in Plato’s Cratylus) One of the constants in life is change. The pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus famously stated this saying, “No man ever steps in the same river twice.” Reality is in constant motion. The flow of
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Guest Post by Eugene Cho A few years ago, my wife, Minhee, and I made one of the hardest decisions we’ve made thus far in our marriage and in our calling as parents. In our hope to honor a conviction of the Holy Spirit to give up a year’s salary, we had begun the two year process
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Charles Marsh is the Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and director of the Project on Lived Theology. His latest book is Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and he is the author of seven previous books, including the memoir The Last Days, and God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and
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Guest Post by Kent Annan The rain roars down. That season has arrived. The rain might as well be tears, drenching hundreds of thousands of people in tents and under tarps [after the earthquake here in Haiti]. I’m back staying with the Woshdlo family [I used to live with] as I check on the rebuilding
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I was recently asked whether love was something atheists could actually have in their evolutionary worldview. If so, what would it be and how could they account for its existence? Atheists can believe in love as part of conscious thought and something they think developed through evolution as a survival instinct to do with the
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For a short time early in the life of Antioch, we put a yellow stress ball in each of the visitors’ welcome bags. Designed for squeezing as a way to relieve tension, they had the simple phrase “Love your enemies” written on them. We envisioned the irony of people who were frustrated (likely with the
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I’ve been thinking tonight about the difference between holy tension (tension over injustice and unrighteousness) and idealistic tension (tension over the gap between my expectations and reality.) Both cause stress. Both aim at a better reality. Both extend beyond our realm of control and become subject of prayer. One, however, seeks to align us with God’s view of imperfection
Guest Post by Rick McKinley When Imago Dei first got off the ground, I met a man named David Nicholas who had started a church in Boca Raton, Florida called Spanish River Community Church. David had this vision for planting churches because he loved seeing people come to Christ. They had committed 10% of their budget to
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