http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-sXhgOroKQ
N.T. Wright no the ancient historicity of the resurrection.
Tag Archives: Christ
Alexander Campbell, Tolbert Fanning, David Lipscomb: A Nineteenth-Century Anti-War Triumvirate
Alexander Campbell, Tolbert Fanning, David Lipscomb: A Nineteenth-Century Anti-War Triumvirate
Three early Church of Christ restoration leaders on war, peace, and the body of Christ.
My Week at the Full Armor Lectures: Wednesday, part 2 by Jeremy Marshall
My Week at the Full Armor Lectures
by Jeremy Marshal
Wednesday, part 2
From the harrowing climax that is called Wednesday part 2:
I remembered that Sharp and MacDoogan had called the Bacon Lane elders the night before and sowed seeds of doubt about my mental stability. I could tell that my assertion that they were attempting to extort me, combined with the tape of my meltdown at the breakfast table, wasn’t helping my case. On the other hand, Brother Dean is one of those tin-foil-hat conspiracy theorist guys. He believes the world is ran by the Club of Rome, that the government is trying to poison us with fluoride in our drinking water, that the Holocaust and themoon landing never happened, and that the real culprit behind 9/11 was the Jews. How could a fellow who believed all that stuff not believe that I was being railroaded? Seems like it’d be right up his alley, really. “Were they also trying to blackmail you when you cussed out Mack Snipes?” he asked.
“My Week at the Full Armor Lectures” by Jeremy Marshall Day 3 (pt. 2)
“My Week at the Full Armor Lectures”
by Jeremy Marshall
Day 3 (pt. 2)
From day 3.2:
“After my talk with Beauregard Jones Tuesday morning, I decided to skip the pre-lunch lectures and go to the Memphis Zoo. It dawned on me that the Full Armor Lectureship—indeed, our entire fellowship—was its own menagerie, a stationary Noah’s ark whose inhabitants refused to leave, all blaming one another for the stench in there. We are not exotic breeds from faraway lands in the First United Primitive Christian Church, however. We are more like stubborn relics of the recent past, looking at the world through nauseatingly garish Technicolor lenses. We live on in the rubble of Modernism, proudly making no concessions to the rest of the world as it evolves without us, flinging our filth at each other. I felt quite at one that day with the animals in the zoo, for it came to me that I, too, had been bred in captivity.”
“My Week at the Full Armor Lectures” by Jeremy Marshall Day 3 (pt. 1)
“My Week at the Full Armor Lectures” by Jeremy Marshall
Day 3 (pt. 1)
from Day 3.1:
Brother Jones waved a dismissive hand. “My views on Hell were well known amongst those people years ago, Calvin,” he said. “Up until a few months back, they just thought of it as one of those pet anomalies every preacher is allowed to have. Let me give you a few examples: Alasdair Cornwall, one of the eighteenth-century visionaries whose ‘back to the Bible,’ non-denominational preaching spawned our little movement, was an Arian, and I’m not even sure if he knew who Arius was. The pioneer revivalist ‘Onion’ Jim Throckmorton taught that it was a sin to get sick. O. D. Gypsum, the much-venerated Greek professor at Steed-Ramrick University from 1923 until 1965, was a staunch pacifist. Yet all these men are quoted freely from Brotherhood pulpits. Then, there’s a slew of outright bigots, such as Lloyd Q. Sargent, Jephthah Wigglesworth, and Zebulon Butcher, who put down their black brethren in their journals and belittled any white congregation that allowed a black evangelist to come preach there. But they are still seen as heroes for their strident defenses of orthodoxy, despite such blatant manifestations of a sinful attitude. It wasn’t an odd perspective on Hell that caused them to put the ban on me, Calvin. I’m in trouble for a much graver display of heterodoxy than annihilationism. And now that I’ve offended them in a great matter, they are calling me to task for every small matter, as well.”
T.E. Hannah on The Problem with a (Merely) Personal Jesus
T.E. Hannah on The Problem with a Personal Jesus
Should I “accept” Jesus as my “personal savior”? What does this entail, and how does it resonate with the Good News message?
T.E. Hannah’s Analysis, in short:
1. Christians Are Called To Follow, Not Accept
2. Christians Conform To Christ, Not Christ To Christians
3. Christians Are Called To Community, Not Isolation
4. Christians Are Called To Serve, Not Be Served
5. Christians Are Saved For More Than Just Themselves
If Hitler was a Christian, I’m the Queen of England
Occasionally you’ll bump into someone who is convinced that the Holocaust was a result of Christianity.
Now, I could dismiss this and laugh it off (no pearls before the swine). But then you would never know if it was true, and if you were searching for reasons to abandon your Christian belief then my reaction would seem cowardly. So let us discuss the matter.
Was Adolf Hitler a Christian? And, if so, is Christianity to blame for the Holocaust?
Continue reading
The War on Christmas is Getting Worrrssssssse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS IS GETTING WORSE AND WORSE!!!
This year, the war on Christmas is getting so bad,
In the interest of shopping for Christmas because the nation couldn’t wait to begin, Black Friday was moved back to Thursday, taking over Thanksgiving!
The war on Christmas is getting so bad,
A Christmas Story and hundreds of other TV Christmas specials will be playing on several major and minor channels!
The war on Christmas is getting so bad,
they’re placing a gigantic huge Christmas tree in the middle of Times Square, New York!
Electing Faithfulness: All Hail the King!
I woke up this morning and thought to myself, “I couldn’t be more happy with how things are going to turn out.”
Why is that?
BECAUSE JESUS IS STILL KING, Y’ALL!
Continue reading
_Not Worth Fighting For_ Review: Part 7
I remember one time we were with some friends watching How to Train Your Dragon with some friends who had children. I said, “I wonder if there’s some critics who say this film is bad because it’s telling us to love terrorists or something.” The guy said, “yeah, can you believe people actually believe that?” I think he meant the loving terrorists thing. Of course the whole point was that the dragons weren’t the real enemy, but the monster they were serving. So is there a kind of person we are not called to love?
While the previous chapter focused on soldiery, in chapter 7 Greg Boyd asks, “Does God Expect Nations to Turn the Other Cheek?” We actually may be surprised by his answer. I had previously read Boyd’s book The Myth of a Christian Nation, a terrific read that asks us to reconsider the naive notion that America is “Christian” in any tangible sense, by looking at scripture.
He reminds us that Jesus’ instructions are unconditional, and that God has even the worst, most violent of our enemies in mind, not just meanies down the block, in Matt.5:38-48; Luke6:27-36; Rom.12:14-21; 1 Peter 3:9,14-18. Imagine, he says, that Al Qaeda ruled America, and you will know the animosity the Jews felt toward Rome. But since what Jesus did for isn’t just what he did, but reflects what he wants us to do (be willing to die innocently loving our enemies and not harming them), Christians don’t have the right to choose who they will and won’t love, will and won’t show loving action toward.
Continue reading
CALEB COY 