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- The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also…
- The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.
- The whole point of what -Jesus was up to was that he was doing close up, in the present, what he was promising long-term in…
- What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event…
- When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of…
- The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation…
- Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.
- Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.
- From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps.…
- It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this…
- Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life…
- Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.
- Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answers but because our questions don't make sense.…
- That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God the rescuer from…
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