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Review: Simply Good News by N. T. Wright
Simply Good News: Why the Gospel is News and What Makes it Good. By N.T. Wright, HarperOne, 2015 The importance of N.T. Wright’s new book,
We, like Peter, have denied Christ
Peter is the New Testament version of Jacob. More than any other people in Scripture, Jacob and Peter represent God’s people. We sympathize with them
We, like Peter, have denied Christ
Peter is the New Testament version of Jacob. More than any other people in Scripture, Jacob and Peter represent God’s people. We sympathize with them because they are boldly human. Both Jacob and Peter were seriously flawed people, but their one redeeming characteristic was how they clung to God. In their flaws, we can see ourselves, but in their cleaving
» Read moreA Christ-Centered Political Party
Christians for too long have attempted to serve two masters. Privately, we serve Jesus as our personal savior, but publicly we serve the ideologies of the world around us. We do not even claim to serve Jesus in our political life. Rather, we honestly admit that we have two allegiances. We are Conservative Christians or Liberal Christians. Publicly, we serve
» Read moreShould God Bless America?
God bless America! We often hear this on the lips of Christians and even non-Christians around the 4th of July. Certainly, this is what we all wish. We desire to be God’s people and we want God to bless our nation. Yet, when people use this phrase so flippantly and irreligious politicians end their speeches with this injunction, I get
» Read moreIs the Republic Lost?
Michael Toth’s review Is the Republic Lost? on the website Library of Law and Liberty highlights the problem of political corruption. He reviews the book, A Republic No More: Big Government and the Rise of American Political Corruption, by Jay Cost. While we would not agree with the general framework of their argument, they highlight the central problem of corruption
» Read moreIs Jesus Weeping Over America?
And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem
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And Shudder With Great Horror
Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols. Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,”declares the Lord. “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken
» Read moreHow the Cross Taunts ISIS by Robert Barron
Review: Simply Good News by N. T. Wright
Simply Good News: Why the Gospel is News and What Makes it Good. By N.T. Wright, HarperOne, 2015 The importance of N.T. Wright’s new book, Simply Good News, is not his presentation of new theological material, but his choice of subject matter. Academia is filled with many brilliant erudite scholars that address topics designed to impress each other. What makes
» Read moreThe Problem with the Post-Enlightenment View of Salvation
The basic problem with our Post-Enlightenment view of salvation is that it is completely anachronistic. We cannot impose our 21st Century framework back on to Paul living in the First Century. Paul was a Jewish thinker living in a Hellenistic culture ruled by imperial Rome. The separation of Religion from politics was unimaginable to him. An individualistic view of salvation
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