Monthly Archives: August, 2011
Are you a Progressive?
Q: Robert, I’m not sure where you are on the Progressive Christian Alliance. Was just on their FB site and thought about hitting like to share on there, but then I can’t say I approve of any of their beliefs-totally unBiblical. Where do you stand? Just curious. R: I would say yes and no to the …
Discipleship and the Cross
“If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, If we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of …
GOD IS BETTER THAN THAT
In Rob Bell’s controversial book Love Wins, he speaks at length about God’s character. In Jay Bakker’s book Fall to Grace, he speaks about the astounding grace offered to all by God. In the work of Jon Piper, we are told that we are to enjoy God forever. Richard Dawkins says God is a delusion. …
LOVE IS LOUDER THAN OUR DIFFERENCES
Update: This Facebook page has been removed. I was just on facebook and stumbled on a page that is offensive, hateful, and outrageous! I need to say something. I am a Christian and I think that as Christians we need to stand up to injustice and hateful people. Many Christians in our history have spoken …
Single- Minded Obedience
Bonheoffer argues that faith in Christ is the most important, but we are also called to “single-minded obedience”. It’s not an either/or proposition. We are called to single-minded obedience through faith in Jesus Christ. Faith should cause in us single-minded obedience; it’s not the cause of human effort, but a product of divine grace. Jesus …
The Call of Discipleship
These reflections on Dietrich Bonheoffer’s Cost of Discipleship, as did Costly Grace grew out of a group study of that challenging book. We are nearing the end and the thing I’ve learned the most is that it should matter and make a difference that I am a Christian. A warning if you have not read …
ASKING THE WRONG QUESTION
At church, on Wednesday nights this summer we’ve been studying 1 John. This letter is demanding and as relevant today as the day it was written. The study has been challenging, fascinating, refreshing, and insightful. I have been forced to question and confront my easy assumptions and strengthened my faith in Jesus by wrestling with …
A FOLLOW UP TO A PERSONAL REVIEW OF LOVE WINS
At church, at certain instances I feel almost unwelcome. Other times, I feel part of a large, generous family. A few times the both are in tension. This is not an altogether bad thing. It causes me to wrestle with things. Some of these things are things I would rather ignore and keep hidden, but …
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