Archive for the 'proclamation' Category

the kingdom comes knocking: a reflection
May 5, 2008

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, a land in which you will [...]

replies: jesus vs. the moral majority (and other sinking ships)
March 5, 2008

Alex From Montreal asked some great questions in the comments section of a recent post. I’d like to answer some of them more fully, and hopefully continue to round out the idea of Christians as a people who see Christ as Lord of everything.
Us Vs. Them
First, as I briefly mentioned in my reply in the [...]

cancer cells & carbonite
February 29, 2008

We have now 100% confirmed type 1A lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. This is fantastic news: normal cancer can travel through your body through all kinds of pesky cancer transporter beams, but lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin’s Lymphoma has to progress sequentially down the Oregon Trail of your Lymph Node system. That makes it containable and predictable. Which is good.
In [...]

missionaries: public or private?
February 20, 2008

The good news of the gospel has relevance for every aspect of society, but western culture would confine it to the private sphere. Arguably, Christians in America have spent too much time making political war on this aspect of western culture instead of laboring to proclaim the beauty, glory and reign of God which redeems [...]

people and purpose: 10 things they hate about you
February 18, 2008

Pastor Aaron shares some statistics that show what younger generations think of Christianity, and how this perception is a far cry from the historical witness of the church. Note: Many of these statistics come from this relatively new book.

keep it secret, keep it safe
February 14, 2008

We’ve been talking quite a bit about the assumed boundary between the private sphere of religion and morality, and the public sphere of consensus facts. All beliefs in the private sphere can be tolerated so long as they remain in the domain of the private sphere. This article in Newsweek illustrates this issue perfectly. The [...]