AIRPORT THEOLOGY
I wrote the following reflections on my way to Ukraine. This was on Tuesday morning, September 22, 2009.
I am sitting at a table for two by the railing on the second floor in Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, eating my McDonald’s breakfast (typical American that I am). I look down and I see a pretty little [...]
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Over at Jesus Creed, Scot McKnight posted a young doubter’s struggles. Scot invited Jesus Creeders to offer sensitive counsel and Scot, then, posted his own response to the young leader. In light of this, note the “Great Commission” text below:
16Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to [...]
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SPOILER!
Julie and I walked away from The Invention of Lying discussing the provocative premise of the film. Starring and written by Ricky Gervais, the film has creative British humor and a magnetic story. Human beings only tell the truth no matter how blunt and offensive (to us the viewers) it may seem. The truth-telling people [...]
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Posted in Culture, Jesus, Ministry, Theology on Dec 10th, 2009
Worth the price of the book: chapter VII of Ben F Meyer’s The Aims of Jesus.
Meyer discerns from Jesus’ proclamation (of the kingdom of God) and his public actions that Jesus worked toward “a stunningly unexpected restoration of Israel” (173).
While there is much in chapter 7, I want to focus on Jesus’ habit of “table [...]
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The other day I saw a TV commercial for Andrea Bocelli’s new CD of Christmas songs titled “my Christmas.” Andrea Bocelli, whom Oprah adores, is a fantastic Italian singer. In the ad he was singing “Ave, Maria” and I felt a little guilty for really liking it. Why? Can a good Protestant really enjoy “Ave, [...]
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Posted in Culture, Jesus, Ministry, Theology on Dec 4th, 2009
I appreciate thoughtful, challenging books like Ben F. Meyer’s The Aims of Jesus. This is my second time through the book and I am reading it more slowly and intentionally.
John the Baptist
Meyer reasons that we need to discern the aims of John the Baptist in the quest to discover Jesus’ aims. John was an “eschatological [...]
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