Geoffrey Holsclaw
Where is the Proclamation? Sometimes older church leaders will look at younger innovative churches and wonder if the proclamation of the gospel is being lost. They wonder if there is still a place for preaching in these new church models. It is true that churches like mine—which often rails against preaching that is individualized, overly rationalistic, […]
We need to change our understanding of being born-again. And we need to change our emphasis on atonement. “You’re a ‘born-again Christian’, right?” I was asked this while at O’Mei, a fine dining Chinese restaurant I worked at through college. My first thought was, Aren’t all Christians born-again? But I said, “I don’t know. What […]
(SNARK: I’m hoping to answer, “Everything you didn’t know you didn’t know about it about God resting.”)
Yesterday the post was getting long so I cut it off and will pick it up now (see this for the beginning of the series).
Yesterday we talked about “The Cosmic Temple of Creation: A Dwelling…”, in that heaven and earth were made to be a dwelling place for God to rest. But what exactly does this means.
The Cosmic Temple of Creation: …For Resting (which is Productive)
If a temple is a place for a god’s dwelling and ruling, then this is what we need to understand by a god resting in a temple. “Rest” is not a cessation of work, but a sitting down from all the preparatory work to engage in the real work of ruling. Let me explain.
Tim Challies ended a recent post criticizing the practice of Lectio Divina by saying, “This, then, is a danger in Lectio Divina, that it may teach us to approach the text subjectively rather than objectively.” But what is the big deal about reading the text subjectively as opposed to objectively? 3 Subjects of Scripture It is […]