The Kingdom is now and not yet. I am an impatient optimist shaped by resurrection.
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THE KILLERS ARE FROM VEGAS AND 80,000 PEOPLE SINGING MISTER BRIGHTSIDE WOULD’VE BEEN THE BEST HALFTIME SHOW SINCE PRINCE
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God has not abandoned His creation to sin and evil. He is not a Creator who rejects and replaces; He reconciles and redeems.
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No, the book of Revelation is not a calendar outlining the events of the last days. No, the book of Revelation doesn't invite us to speculate and look for clues. Revelation invites the church, then and now, to be faithful in its witness to the risen Jesus.
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A humble Christianity sounds like, “how do my beliefs make me more capable of loving others?,” not “my beliefs make me the authority on truth and morality over others.”
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Theological beliefs are important but the world doesn’t need our theological beliefs - it needs our loving witness.
Because witness always wins over people to the truth.
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Christianity is not about having answers. It’s about the transformation that takes place as we pursue the questions.
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How are you ministering to those deconstructing? By telling them to stop thinking? To be more like you? By ostracizing them or pretending they don’t exist? If so, you’re not ministering to them. Which is another reason they’re deconstructing.
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Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount was not given to show our inability to live it out and trust God.
It was given so we would trust God and live it out in God’s power.
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don't know ANYTHING about his politics, but the CEO of Arizona Iced Tea has kept then 23oz cans 99 cent through 2 recessions. I'll vote for him if he runs
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My colleague @MikeCosper talks to Bono @U2 about evangelicals, music, and more in this @CTmagazine cover story:
christianitytoday.com/ct/202…
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Jesus didn’t welcome outcasts and embrace untouchables to make them acceptable to God.
He did it to show them, and everyone else, that God had already accepted them.
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You can deconstruct all you want but those Steven Curtis Chapman songs will be with you forever.
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Sabbath is one of clearest signs of the gospel of grace. You intentionally accomplish nothing and God still loves you.
Such good news.
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In our minds holiness is usually about what we abstain from.
But Jesus saw holiness as what you give yourself to. (Namely, justice, mercy, compassion, love & hospitality.)
In the end, the holiest people are the ones who love well.
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The gospel of grace is not,
God hates you, but if you trust in Jesus’s death, God will love you.
No. It’s:
God has always loved you, and most fully demonstrates that love through Christ dying for you.