Something Is Wrong Here: A Mediation on Genesis 3The World as It Is The opening message of the Bible is that God so loved that he created a very good world. We learn that God created women and men in his own image for the purpose of love and fellowship. We learned that From the Beginning God was and is loving, gracious and supremely good toward all his Creation. That is comforting and essential to know. That is however the world that was.Moses tells us that the Story did not end in Genesis 2. Israel, like you and I, had experienced a world that...
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Ok, folks I apologize for the expletive in my PG-13 title but at the moment it is the only word I can think of. Eugene Peterson once noted that cursing was once holy language before it degenerated into mere profanity. I am not using mere profanity however. But I am upset!I was crusin' through MSNBC reading the latest headlines and came across "Woman dies in ER lobby as 911 refuses help." The story is dated 7:43 am, June 13, 2007. Here is a link:...
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Heaven (14): The City of God, Rev 21-21, Pt 2 “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven” (Revelation 21.1-2, cf. v.10 and 3.12).BeginningIn our previous post we explored the some of the positive imagery of the word “city” in the ancient world, including in Scripture. City is a major image in Revelation 21 where the term occurs 10x. We noted how the city offers refuge and gives permanence...
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Heaven (13): The City of God, Revelation 21 & 22, Pt. 1 Initial Thoughts I am concluding my reflections on the biblical teaching regarding heaven. Repeatedly I have argued that the Christian hope consists of the Resurrected Lord, Resurrected people in holy communion on God’s Resurrected Earth. That this theme runs like a river throughout Scripture is, in my view, simply plain. The Enlightenment, neo-platonic, glasses we have worn for quite some time has obscured this river but with the coming of the setting of the delusions of Modernism...
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Book Announcement: A Gathered People: Revisioning the Assembly as Transforming Encounter by John Mark Hicks, Johnny Melton & Bobby Valentine (Leafwood Press, 2007)I can now officially announce my book project that John Mark, Johnny and myself have been working on for the better part of a year. A great deal of thought, prayer and even sweat went into the writing of this book. A Gathered People focuses primarily upon the theology of corporate...
Trip to the Land of Beer & Cheese I arrived home yesterday evening (Monday nite) from a trip to my old stomping grounds in Milwaukee. The primary reason for the voyage was the honor of performing the wedding of Lorna Dolhun to Jerry Seidner.I had a marvelous time. I was greeted at the airport on Friday by Vivian Karbiner and we ate at Famous Daves BBQ for lunch. That evening we had rehearsal and a number of us went to Sarapheno's pizzeria...
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