Christians love to talk about truth. It’s one of the ways in which we defend our dogmatism, our focus on doctrine and how we are right while others are wrong. I love truth too. I believe sound doctrine is important and I also believe bad ideas should suffer and better ideas should win. Truth, however, […]
Tom N.T. Wright is one of today’s best known and respected New Testament scholars. Born in 1948, he studied for the ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and was ordained as Junior Research Fellow and Junior Chaplain at Merton College, Oxford. From 1978 to 1981 he was Fellow and Chaplain at Downing College, Cambridge, and then
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Guest Post by Sam Adams We had the privilege of hosting Dr. John Perkins at Kilns College this past week. Dr. Perkins is a follower of Jesus whose life has been given in service of justice for the poor, the outsiders, and the abused: those who have been deemed unimportant by our world of comfort
Dr. John Perkins… on Heresy? Read More »
Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ Jesus in which we may participate. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
David Lomas serves as the lead pastor at Reality in San Francisco, a church community that started in 2010 in the Castro District. He lives, with his wife Ashley, in one of the most un-churched cities in the nation, but one that is bursting with new life and the grace of God. The Reality family
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As a leader, I am often inundated by Christian leadership books and essays on goal setting, life planning and dream setting (having a bucket list of what I hope to do before I die). Bucket lists can be idolatrous, however—things that end up directing us instead of God. Idols are incredibly dangerous because they reshape
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Guest Post by Peter Heltzel “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!” Psalm 133:1 Jesus Christ, the revelation of the Triune Creator as a human person, is the basis of our life together. In order to live in unity, we need to get to know each other, including our
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Faith produces obedience out of trust, not its full knowledge of all the facts and concurrence with God’s divine strategy. This is what Jesus showed us in his death (Phil 2) that God’s plan was above the individual plan; that we are most in God’s will when we are most submissive. As I look at most
When We Are The Mountain Read More »
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet & delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. Brother Lawrence
Over the past two decades, I’ve spent in ministry, I’ve often encountered people who want to follow Jesus but can’t handle church, and people who have been hurt, abused, or repeatedly let down by those who claim to be Christians. Because of these, and other factors, everyone seems to be asking, “Can’t I just have
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