Part One/Part Two Much of the Bible is written from the position of the oppressed. We see this within the Old Testament prophets. Most of them came from situations where they were being attacked by enourmous empires. In the Bible the mighty empires are the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Assyrians, and then the…
Jesus Wants to Save Christians .2
Part One: From Oppressed to Oppressors In the first part of the book Bell establishes God’s care for the oppressed by walking through the story of Israel from Cain to Solomon. He summarizes that theme by saying: “God always hears the cry of the oppressed. God cares about human suffering and the conditions that cause…
Shallow?
I read a post today by Andrew Jones (Tall Skinny Kiwi) that I could really relate with. He said: “My previous post is about one million people deciding to follow Jesus with the assistance of some new web tools and only two people thought it interesting enough to comment on. Sometimes the blogosphere seems very…
Jesus Wants to Save Christians
Over Thanksgiving I read through the new book by Rob Bell and Don Golden titled Jesus Wants to Save Christians. It is the first whole book I’ve read by Bell and I was honestly really impressed. I’ve always enjoyed his teaching style and that same style really shines through in his writing. I’ll be blogging…
Knowing
There is big difference between knowing about God and knowing God. — Most seminary educations help pastors know more about God. Most churches services help us know more about God. Most Christian books help us know more about God. Most Bible studies help us know more about God. But all of these things, in and…
The Club
Religion has a funny way of creating groups and strong borders for those groups. We see this with the thousands of denominations within Protestant Christianity. No one can agree on much of anything, so they just go and create a new group that will eventually be split a part over a “key Biblical issue” or…