Jesus at the Margins- Part 1 (from the archives)
I’ve been ruminating again about Jesus’ life with the marginalized of 1st century Judaism. I’m going to ponder in print some of my thoughts.
We often think that Jesus left his surburban bungalow on the green hillside of Galilee and went into the big city and sought [...]
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Craig R. Koester offers both a theologically vibrant and pastorally applicable presentation of Revelation in his book Revelation and the End of All Things. Koester is professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN.
I was trained in what has become a theologically obnoxious and pastorally irrelevant view of the enigmatic apocalypse of John–the [...]
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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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