By Scott | Published:
March 2, 2010
Let’s return to Genesis 4 and begin to consider the arc of the whole narrative. I think that’s important because often today, especially in modern evangelicalism, that arc is either abbreviated or almost entirely omitted.
If you listen carefully to the problem, the solution, and the narrative connecting the two in much of evangelicalism today, you [...]
Posted in Original Sin | Also tagged evangelicalism, forgiveness, gospels, guilt, holy scripture, Original Sin, passion, pentecost, religion, resurrection, romans, sin, spirit |
By Scott | Published:
February 5, 2010
The fourth chapter of Thomas Howard’s book, Prayer: Random or Discipline?, is devoted to his encounter with the Christian discipline of corporate set prayers that began when he returned to the University of Illinois for graduate studies. He began attending the daily Office of Evening Prayer at a small chapel across the street. He describes [...]
Posted in Evangelical Is Not Enough | Also tagged acts of the apostles, apostle, brother lawrence, buddhist, christians, dallas willard, disciplines, humility, icon, incarnation, judaism, love, new testament, praying with the church, thomas howard |
By Scott | Published:
June 12, 2009
This series is reflecting on the Didache if you want to read it separately.
The way of life, then, is this: First, you shall love God who made you; second, love your neighbor as yourself, and do not do to another what you would not want done to you.
What lies at the heart [...]
Posted in Didache | Also tagged Christian, chutzpah, Didache, God, Holy Scriptures, Jesus, love, love the lord your god, love your neighbor, new testament, scripture, shema israel, torah, way of life |
By Scott | Published:
June 7, 2009
I’ve read Julie Clawson’s post, Disappointed with Emergent?, and followed the replies with a fair degree of interest. I’ve thought about what I might say in a comment and it’s never really seemed to fit the focus and flow of the discussion or be something I could say succinctly. As I’ve thought about it, I’ve [...]
Posted in Faith | Also tagged body, brother lawrence, Christian, christianity, clawson, conservative culture, conversations, different perspective, evangelicalism, Faith, God, Jesus, jesus of nazareth, love, N.T. Wright, Orthodox, orthodoxy, person, reality, spirit, spiritual |
By Scott | Published:
May 21, 2009
Earlier this week I was discussing with a friend the difficulty of actual communicating anything meaningful about sex or sexuality in our cultural context without first exploring the question of what it means to be a human being created in the image of God. I think a lot of American cultural Christians, especially those often [...]
Posted in Justification | Also tagged Christian, christian perspective, christianity, Father, God, Jesus, justification, n t wright, new perspective on paul, protestant reformation, stephen freeman |
By Scott | Published:
May 13, 2009
This post in the series should wrap up the meandering thread I’ve been tracing through the story of my life. For no discussion of encounters with fasting communities could ever be complete without discussing Orthodoxy. Somehow, in all my wide-ranging study, modern Orthodoxy still managed to catch me off-guard. Like many, at least in the [...]
Posted in Celiac, Fasting | Also tagged anger, breath prayer, brother lawrence, Christian, Didache, disciplines, Faith, Fast, Fasting, God, great schism, great schism of 1054, Jesus, jesus prayer, love, Orthodox, orthodox church, orthodoxy, practice of the presence of god, prayer, prayers, praying with the church, roman catholic, schism, spirit, spiritual |