Tag: Jesus
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Review: Jesus: A Theography by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola
[amazon asin=0849947022&template=wishlist&chan=default] I received an advance electronic copy of this book for an honest review. I had looked forward to reading this book, but I had no idea what was in store for me. I’ve heard and read that all of Scripture can be read through the lens of Christ, but I had felt, at…
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Quote: Jesus is Crazy About You
“Jesus Christ is crazy about you. He loves you just as you are, not as you should be.” ~ Brennan Manning
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N. T. Wright on Heaven
I saw this and just knew I had to add it to one of my blogs: (a) Heaven is important but it’s not the end of the world: in the mainstream Christian tradition until the Platonists corrupted it, the ultimate destination is THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH, which will involve an ultimate resurrection…
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Palm Sunday Reflection
Good reflection from N. T. Wright on Mark 11:1-11 (Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem) Over the next few chapters, in fact, Mark will show us what Jesus meant when, in chapter 10, he radically redefined kingship. This is not to be the sort of royalty that either Israel or the rest of the world…
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They Like Jesus
And here we are getting at the root of the matter. A Jesus who does not look like us, doesn’t talk like us, doesn’t dress like us, and lives according to a different culture is alien to us. He is very hard to identify with. Instead of changing ourselves into an image more like…