Building a GRASSROOTS CHRISTIANITY: Growing Faith for Everyday People

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discipleship missional

On Distorting Sex, Marriage, the Gospel (Live Q&A w/ Dr. Beth Felker Jones)

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date March 8, 2023
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Like Jesus, we need to overturn the tables of those peddling gender hierarchies within the temple of our bodies.

Tags body, God, gospel, neuroscience, Salvation, sex, theology, theology of the body

evangelical

The Irony of Progressive Critiques of Revival

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date February 22, 2023
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Is Christianity essentially individualistic or social? Is following Jesus personal or communal? Progressives can’t decide.

Tags asbury revival, Christianity, discipleship, God, gospel, Jesus, revival, social gospel

Neuroscience

Why are therapists often the most popular “spiritual” writers?

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date October 6, 2022
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Because therapists have taken over the role of pastoring, and pastors have gladly become teachings, managers, and leaders.

Tags Faith, God, gospel, Jesus, neuroscience, pastor, psychology, theology, therapist, therapy

“God” is Not a Person?

Or, why progressive-liberals are as trapped by the modern, literalistic reductions as evangelical-fundamentalists.

Tags Evangelical, God, Jesus, liberal, Love, progressive, progressive-liberal

Christian Nationalism politics

The 4 Assumptions of Nationalism (notes on Christian Nationalism)

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date September 19, 2022
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We must look at the WHAT and the WHY of “nationalism” before we can look Christian Nationalism.

Tags America, Christian Nationalism, church, God, gospel, Jesus, nation, nationalism

“Stay in your lane” regarding therapy and theology!

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date August 8, 2022
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The easy answer is that Christianity lost its authority through abuse and the shift into post-Christendom. But there are deeper realities too.

Tags Faith, God, neuroscience, theology, therapist, therapy

evangelical evangelicalism

Does the Truth of Christianity Correspond to Anything?

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date August 8, 2022
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Seeking correspondence with reality might work for science. But it certainly doesn’t work for the most important truths in the world.

Tags Evangelical, Faith, God, Jesus, truth

Bible Faith

The Psalms: Overcoming Certainty Seeking

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date August 2, 2022
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What cured me of my modern evangelical-fundamentalist certainty seeking?

Tags bible, doubt, Evangelical, Faith, God, gospel, Jesus, pslams

discipleship Fundamentalism theology

What would an integrated life of faith look like? An outline

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date July 29, 2022
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After a lot of criticism of fundamentalist and progressive Christianity, here is an outline of a way forward.

Tags church, Faith, God, gospel, integrated, integration, Jesus, theology

discipleship theology

Why this is the 1st Fundamental Decision You Already Made about God

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date July 27, 2022
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In the Christian deconstruction & reconstruction process, you always make a fundamental decision about God, which leads to a decision about the Bible.

Tags deconstruction, Faith, God, gospel, Jesus, reconstruction, theology