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In All Things, For God’s Glory

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date September 6, 2017
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Obviously my mind is stuck on the theme of God’s glory (see previous posts here and here). Which way does God’s glory flow? Back to God? Or out from God? This is today’s question. The glory of God’s keeps bouncing around in my mind as I feel out objections to the view I’m often put […]

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Made for God’s Glory? another on the Nashville Statement

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date September 5, 2017
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Is there a better way to understand the idea that God made us for his glory? Yesterday we focus at this phrase from the Nashville Statement: “Many deny that God created human beings for his glory.” ~ Preamble to Nashville Statement. I ended my post asking this question. And, “Yes,” there is a better […]

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God’s Glory? On the Nashville Statement

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date September 4, 2017
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“Many deny that God created human beings for his glory.” ~ Preamble to Nashville Statement. I have a bunch of thoughts about the Nashville Statement released last week and how it positions itself within the American sexuality and identity. But for now I just want to focus on a typical statement from the preamble. The […]

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While on sabbatical I began writing a book with my wife about how “God with us” is the MAIN thing, how everything—how we read the Bile and how we live our lives—needs to flow in and out of God coming to dwell with us. But during this writing process and sabbatical I’ve come to realize […]