gospel tagged posts

Book review: The Gospel According to Jesus

10 October 2010 Book Review  No comments

Chris Seay's The Gospel According to Jesus: A Faith that Restores All Things attempts to refocus Christians to a proper understanding of the Gospel message. Centering his discussion around a reported misunderstanding of the terms righteousness and

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Watching for Ehrman and his bias

28 June 2010 New Testament  No comments

Darrell Bock recently discussed his use of Bart Ehrman's The New Testament: An Historical Introduction for this course for his classes. The focus was on the clear bias of Ehrman, and, as I want to bring out, how we need to be very careful and

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Yoder on Jesus and lording it over.

22 June 2010 Nonviolence  One comment

Yoder produced an excellent commentary on Matthew xx.25-26 and lording over others. Some things to think on.

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Christians killing Muslims in Nigeria, violence begetting violence

31 December 2009 Featured Highlights, Nonviolence  11 comments

"Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab wouldn't have to go to an al Qaeda camp in Yemen to learn how to hate. He had examples closer to home. Christians and Muslims have been killing each other in Nigeria for much of his lifetime."

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The Death Penalty Denies the Gospel

13 July 2009 Theology  No comments

A good word from Melanie Weldon-Soiset from God's Politics on the abhorrent practice of the death penalty. I've dropped in a wonderful statement below, but have a read of the original.
The death penalty also denies the transformative power of the

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