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Tag: gospel

  • The Alien Gospel

    To belong 
To His Kingdom 
Makes us aliens 
To this one

  • How to Take Up Our Cross Daily?

    Searching for THE right question.

  • Fruit of the Spirit vs Veggies of the Law/Jellies of the Flesh

    Perhaps like you, I had subconsciously assumed that Fruit of the Spirit meant I myself was feeling more love, joy, peace, etc. But once I reimagined Fruit as “experiences we give others that contain the seed of Christ,” I started to get really excited.

  • The Amygdala Gospel: Rewiring How We Grow Closer to Jesus

    When Jesus said we must deny ourselves, I think He meant the amygdala.

  • Addiction, Alcohol and The Law

    Drinking alcohol may not be a sin, but it certainly is a coping mechanism I need to be careful about. There is always a risk of turning to that instead of Christ. Unfortunately, the same can be said of the Law: the religious, psychological, and social structures I rely on…

  • Socrates Evangelion (Beyond “Apology”)

    A powerfully-built young man stands on the walls of Athens. His face is torn between Hope and Sorrow. He has clearly been there a while, staring into the west as the sun sets. Finally he sighs and turns to return home. Just before he descends he glances back for one…

  • TGR-S2E5: Unlearning Idolatry

    Next Tuesday, June 16, 2020 our Biastes public discipleship men’s group will continue using The Great Reset in Education as a lens to explore issues of racism and repentance in the wake of the Killing of George Floyd. Question How can we retrain ourselves to measure everything against the reality…

  • TGR-03: Wholly Broken

    Question What does God want: Of us For Us From Us Perspective My answer: Whole-I-ness (Holiness/Wholeness) A whole world Of whole people Loving all of the one God

  • TGR-02: 3-D Fathering

    From an interactive Zoom call at 10 AM Pacific on Friday, April 10th, 2020 AD for Episode 2 of The Great Reset: Becoming the Church Decentralized. Question: How does God loves us? Why is that Good News?

  • Paleo-Evangelical Christianity

    I consider myself a “Paleo-Evangelical” Christian. Like my counterparts in the first century, I have had transformational encounters with the person of Jesus Christ and am devoted to making him known as the Risen Lord; but am still working through which of my inherited cultural understandings and religious teachings are…

  • The Sinners Prayer, 2.0

    Dear God, Thank you for creating me in Your image, and for loving us like Jesus. Make me more and more like Jesus as I listen to your Word, your Spirit, and your Body. Heal the wounds in my spirit that keep me from loving You, myself and others as…

  • Anjali’s Catechism: A Childlike Invitation to Spiritual Christianity

    Are you ready to: Embrace the One who created the universe as your Heavenly Father who loves us like Jesus?

  • From the Kingdom to the Cross: A Confession

    I think we’ve missed something. To be fair, everyone else in the gospels — the crowds, the disciples, even John the Baptist — also missed it. But that’s still no excuse. Especially since we have their example. We have forgotten the cross of Christ.

  • God Loves Us Like Jesus: A Six Syllable Gospel (Childlike Theology)

    [Now part 1 of 6 in a series on Childlike Theology] Since my son’s second set of seasons, I’ve sought a scalable summary of the gospel. Something simple enough to be sung by a six-year-old, yet sufficiently sophisticated to stun seminarians for centuries. Here’s my most successful statement so far: God Loves Us…

  • Evangel, Part V: Living The Gospel

    “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who…

  • Evangel, Part IV: The Bad News

    Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live…

  • Evangel, Part III: The Good News

    “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.” — John…

  • Evangel, Part II: The Story of God (and Me)

    “Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first…

  • Evangel, Part I: What is the Gospel?

    “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.” – Romans 1:16

  • Good News for Modern Nerds

    The Nerd Bible (pdf) started with my sermon notes from 1985 at Park Street Church in Boston, where I was an MIT sophomore…