"Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion. Religion consists of all the things (believing, behaving, worshiping, sacrificing) the human race has ever thought it had to do to get right with God." (Robert Capon) In these last few posts I've tried to contrast a before and after kind … Continue reading Re-Framing
Category: Wisdom
Progressive Revelation
In the last post I celebrated 2 years of Alancetotheheart. It has been a fun ride of progressive revelation. I have found some themes and concepts have persisted over the two years but the backdrop of theology has obviously changed. I like to find those threads and see how they have morphed as my mind has … Continue reading Progressive Revelation
The perfect starting point…new perspectives
For those regular readers I am off to Jordan today for a week of loving on refugees from Syria and living in the intoxicating presence of Him with others from the US and Jordan. John Crowder is leading the trip so I expect some amazing stories for my return. So for the next 10 days … Continue reading The perfect starting point…new perspectives
The perfect starting point…an example
Starting point: In my last post I talked about how important it is to have the correct starting point. The absolutely only starting point that is right (righteous) and is like no other (holy) and is faithful (obedience) is Jesus. He is our inertial navigation reference point. He is the truth. In the anointing of … Continue reading The perfect starting point…an example
The perfect starting point…Jesus in you.
If you have been reading these posts for any while you know that one of my "broken records" is our fallen perspective because of our consumption of bad fruit. When we chose to make our sustenance the fruit from the knowledge of good and evil fruit tree we really got messed up. Before the cross … Continue reading The perfect starting point…Jesus in you.
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