I don’t hate the prosperity gospel. And you shouldn’t either. What we should hate is when it is taken out of context. If we look to the Old Testament (which is a favorite mining ground for such proofing texting) we often see passages which speak of the promises of God for our personal prosperity and [...]
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something more beyond
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
This morning I asked a question on Twitter: Here is a response & re-response: So let me now unpack what exactly I was getting at with this question, some of the implications, and what is a possible solution. First the question The original question was essentially this: what will the nature of our redeemed bodies [...]
confession
Saturday, 17 October 2009
After teaching Wednesday nights, I’m usually in either a good mood or a really bad disappointed mood. This week was the latter. Whatever the mood, it usually is reflected in the following day also. For basically 24 hours I was sunk into a self-loathing state, all simply from my sense of failure. This teaching engagement [...]
contemporary debate: justification & righteousness
Sunday, 22 March 2009
[Here] is a post by Andrew Jones, one of the prolific Christian bloggers of the web, highlighting a current debate/conversation going back and forth across the Atlantic. I bring attention to this for your sake; so that you would know what the current state of theological debate is on the larger scene beyond our classroom. [...]