Kingdom Contemplative

Continuing with the Myers Briggs and Jesus theme from my earlier post, I’d like to focus more on Jesus than myself. I remember, while going through a Christian internship program one summer as a teen, learning about personality temperaments. I found it fascinating to discover how different each of us were. And of course, we began talking about Jesus, because, you know, it is a Christian…

A friend of mine is all about the Myers-Briggs testing. It was great to find out what my personality type was. However, when I googled it, I was saddened.

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Are You Privileged? http://wp.me/p4SYKL-9L #newblogpost

Some time ago I received this “privilege” test and upon reviewing it, I was enlightened and yet was provoked by it as well.

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Some time ago I received this “privilege” test and upon reviewing it, I was enlightened and yet was provoked by it as well. (more…)

Pentecost Sunday - The Birth of Church and it's Calling

After the resurrection of Jesus and right before his ascension into the heavens, he told his disciples to “wait for the Father’s promise”. In other words, “begin expecting that prophetic word by Joel to occur in the near future. That promise as foretold, the one everyone has waited for a long time now, will arrive! Actually, in just a matter of days.”

After he tells them this, they ask him about…

In this book, four views are offered in this topic of Paul: Reformed (by Thomas R. Schreiner), Catholic (by Luke Timothy Johnson), Post-New Perspective (by Douglas A. Campbell), and Jewish (by Mark D. Nanos).

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Here’s a barna update on what voters are looking for in a candidate.

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It was around 50 AD that a group of leaders within the Christian movement came together to further discuss the requirements for salvation. The Jewish leaders were already talking about this, but they believed that as Christians, especially, they needed to settle the matter. The meeting is known as the Council of Jerusalem.  (more…)

America’s Changing Religious Landscape | Pew Research Center.

Upon reviewing the data, it is quite interesting to see that those who have left Christianity is not a specific people group, but Americans of all backgrounds…whites and minorities, college graduates and high school educated, men and women. (more…)

In reading the synoptic gospels over and again, then reading James, and then the Pauline letters, I was struck at how different they were. Something was wrong. Either Paul is wrong on what faith is or, we’re reading him wrongly.

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