Monthly Archives: May 2009

Twitter Updates for 2009-05-30

Posted on May 30, 2009 by

RT @jrdkirk: Final installment: Cruciform Ethics and Evil done in Jesus’ Name http://cli.gs/rWXU5P # RT @cicw: RT @ZonderAcademic Posted: Bible Backgrounds: Gideon’s Fleece by Dan L. Block http://rly.cc/FanTF # RT @cicw: RT @mattcleaver New blog post: The 3 Spheres of … Continue reading →

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Hear the Lion, See the Lamb

Posted on May 29, 2009 by

Found this in doing my Revelation study with our Adult Sunday School class at Living Stones. There are a lot of parallels between Revelation chapter 5 and chapter 7. One of the coolest is hearing and seeing. In chapter 5 … Continue reading →

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Twitter Updates for 2009-05-29

Posted on May 29, 2009 by

the loss of consciousness of God’s wrath and the ironic resultant loss of gratitude http://bit.ly/AlR6j # Noll: American form rather than American influence has been its most important contribution to world Christianity http://bit.ly/1atJAZ # NT Wright’s Pentecost sermon from 07 … Continue reading →

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Pentecost

Posted on May 29, 2009 by

Jesus is over the top. If you ask someone who Jesus was and what he taught you’ll likely get one of two answers: “Jesus tells us how to get to heaven when we die” or “Jesus, like all other great … Continue reading →

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NT Wright's shocking assertion of what Pentecost means

Posted on May 28, 2009 by

From his Pentecost Sermon of 07 posted here: http://www.ntwrightpage.com/sermons/Pentecost07.htm “The disciples, filled with the Spirit, begin the work of Jesus’ sovereign and saving rule over the world, whose Lord he now is, by their shared common life, their works of … Continue reading →

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NT Wright on the meaning of the Ascension

Posted on May 28, 2009 by

From NT Wright’s Pentecost sermon found at http://www.ntwrightpage.com/sermons/Pentecost07.htm “The early Christians, like their Jewish contemporaries, saw heaven and earth as the overlapping and interlocking spheres of God’s good creation, with the point being that heaven is the control room from … Continue reading →

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The Loss of Awareness of God's Wrath and the ironic resultant loss of gratitude

Posted on May 28, 2009 by

This is a repost from September 2007. Since reading NT Wright’s book on Justification and continuing my study in Revelation for our adult Sunday School class I’ve got more thoughts God’s wrath, and I might tweek some of my statements … Continue reading →

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Twitter Updates for 2009-05-28

Posted on May 28, 2009 by

Jews in Babylon, the birth of New Testament missiology http://bit.ly/gi3mS # Proto-NT missiology begins in Jeremiah 29, blog repost from 8/06 http://bit.ly/TKOyb # How grace through Christ breaks the victim to tyrant cycle of oppression http://bit.ly/kHI2O # RT @CGOblog: Blogging … Continue reading →

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Dan Allender on Lament as the shadow side of faith

Posted on May 27, 2009 by

This is from Philip Yancey’s book The Bible Jesus Read p. 128-129 To whom do you vocalize the most inense, irrational– meaning inchoate, inarticulate– anger? Would you do so with someone who could fire you or cast you out of … Continue reading →

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John Calvin on Acts 2:21

Posted on May 27, 2009 by

I’m working on my Pentecost sermon for Sunday and came across this reference to what Calvin said about this verse in his commentary on Acts. The verse says “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” … Continue reading →

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