Entries Tagged as 'Theology Thoughts'
21st Century Missions: We gain more from short-term missions that we give
June 16th, 2009 · 6 Comments
This is a continuation of a series I’ve been running on the changing face of missions in the 21st Century, click here to read more. I’m not discounting the fact that short term missions can be quite fruitful, but the long experienced feedback from short term missions is how they were greeted with hospitality and [...]
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End of Week Round Up
May 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
Seeing as the last round up was little more technology based, this has more of a theological bent to it. In a pretty fascinating article in the New Statesman AN Wilson describes his journey from belief to atheism and back. "My departure from the Faith was like a conversion on the road to Damascus. My [...]
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An Easter post – a little late
April 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Following on from my foray into blogging poems I enjoyed – I think sometimes the wonder of the biblical narrative is only really captured in poetry. Here’s a poem for Easter. From the far star points of his pinned extremities,cold inched in—black ice and squid ink—till the hung flesh was empty.Lonely in that void even [...]
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Spatial Metaphors on Heaven
March 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off
So often the words we speak, be they metaphorical or descriptive in other ways, become the literal ways we think about things. For example the metaphor of the heart as a pump is often used, but in actual fact the heart is much more than a pump, and thinking of it in such a way [...]
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Evangelism is…
March 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Jason Clark has a superb guest post which summarises Bryan Stone’s book Evangelism after Christendom: The Theology and Practice of Christian Witness by creating 12 statements about Evangelism. Click through to see a more detailed treatment. Image 1: Evangelism is… the church being present in the world. Image 2: Evangelism is… essentially embodied in everything [...]
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End of Week Round Up
March 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments
The Round up has returned fom a temporary hiatus, and I have a big back log, far too long for one post, but if you are interested in where I find all this interesting stuff you can subscribe to my Google Reader Shared feeds/Twitter/Del.icio.us or the friendfeed which is a culmination of all of the [...]
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Re-imagining our lives as mission
March 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off
Ive been thinking of ways of understanding mission and missional activities which are inclusive. By that I mean ways of describing and summarizing the work of missions that does not allow us to annex the term to the common conception of somewhat ‘working in Africa’.
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The humility of true exegesis
February 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
The more I read Eugene Peterson the more I am convinced that he stands out the premier author of our day to contribute to the mind and practise of the Church, through his thinking on Spiritual Theology.Every other sentence seems to contain an eminently quotable thought or phrase. "But exegesis doesn’t means mastering the text, it means [...]
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Start of Week Round up
January 20th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Making my way through 600 unread feeds (going to need to begin pairing things down soon!) I came across of few things that might interest you: If your a bit of an amateur theology book buyer, you might like to drool over the following list, the library of systematician J. Rodman Williams library, selling for [...]
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Contemplation of Scripture is primarily Spiritual before it is literary
January 13th, 2009 · Comments Off
The older contemplators of scripture possessed the art of seeing the total form within individual forms and of bringing it to light from within them. But this naturally presuposes an understanding of totality that is spiritual and not literary.- von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord, p.550
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