I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain…
Tag: Common Grace
Tossed To And Fro
(from In Christ—The Church At Ephesus, forthcoming) Paul looked forward to the day when Christians would not be “tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine” (Ephesians 4: 14). Again, this phrase suggests…
Through The Church
(from In Christ—The Church At Ephesus, forthcoming.) To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone…
Peace
Peace is not the absence of conflict. The Greek word translated as peace (εἰρήνη) literally means to join, which fits right into the larger context of eliminating the wall of division between the circumcised and the uncircumcised. Peace comes when…
The True Mystery of The Mystical Presence
Add To Cart Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-9839046-0-1 Publisher: Pilgrim Platform Copyright: ©2011 “Nevin’s Mystical Presence fell into my hands quite providentially at the most impressionable stage of my theological formation, and it made a lasting impression on me. Nevin’s burden…
Christian Context: Rejecting Christ
Richard Hughes continues his series of articles in the Huffington Post, The Christian Right in Context: Building a Christian America, with a clear statement of his bias. By saying that “There have always been Christians who have resisted religious pluralism…
Christian Context: Short Sheeted
Richard Hughes in a recent article, The Christian Right in Context, Part 1: The Long View (Huffington Post, 11/8/2010) puts conservative Christianity in the context of liberalism. His essay oozes with the liberal righteousness of supposed objectivity, but is blindly…
Church Failure
Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell wrote an article, Walking away from church, for the LA Times (10/17/2010) summarizing their recent book, American Grace. It seems that churches might want to hear what their research has uncovered. “As recently…
The Moral Landscape
I heard Sam Harris defend his new book, The Moral Landscape, last night on BookTV.Very Interesting. I’ll have to get a copy and read it. From what I could tell, he has borrowed liberally from the biblical Christian perspective, but…
Rock Mountain Creed
Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount by Phillip A. Ross First Edition, 325 pages. From the Introduction What difference does Jesus make? Did His teaching and ministry change everything? Or did Jesus’ teaching simply uphold the Old Testament law without changing…