Catching up on my sermon blogging:
A sermon for the 6th Sunday of Easter: Not a Private Kingdom
A sermon for Pentecost Sunday: Pentecost Mission
A sermon for Trinity Sunday: Trinity and Community
Showing posts with label Pentecost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pentecost. Show all posts
18 May 2008
06 May 2008
Pentecost Thought
A Pentecost thought from Goldie Milgram as cited in an old issue of Living Pulpit: 'Pentecost is asking God how we should be with our freedom.'
Also thinking about 'Pentecost as initiation'
and
'Pentecost as that which happens when you know you have to change or die'.
30 September 2007
It's Funny...
It's funny how trends can start with just a remark.
I've just started rereading Steve Chalke's The Lost Message of Jesus. I actually read it when it first came out in 2004 but I gave my copy to a friend and I needed to get my hands on the book again.
The reason that I needed to get my hands on it again is because I'm working on a paper about theologies of atonement.
Anyway what's 'funny' about Chalke's book is that in 2004 it opened a whole can of worms in the UK on the subject of 'the correct theory of atonement'. But, as I break open the cover again for the second time, I'm reminded that the book really isn't primarily about atonement theory at all. I'm not actually certain what it is, perhaps actually a follow-on to Dave Tomlinson's Post Evangelical.
Certainly, Chalke's book is a plea to recover the teachings of Jesus as central and important to what it means to be a Christian. I also think that Chalke's book is what is now the recognisable post-evangelical plea for church communities to be safe places to struggle with faith-issues. Something that, in my experience, is not possible in church communities that take a hard line on any doctrinal issue, be it penal substitutionary atonement, resurrection or 6-day twenty-four hour creation.
Anyway, I've just cracked open the book again for the second time, so more later.
I've just started rereading Steve Chalke's The Lost Message of Jesus. I actually read it when it first came out in 2004 but I gave my copy to a friend and I needed to get my hands on the book again.
The reason that I needed to get my hands on it again is because I'm working on a paper about theologies of atonement.
Anyway what's 'funny' about Chalke's book is that in 2004 it opened a whole can of worms in the UK on the subject of 'the correct theory of atonement'. But, as I break open the cover again for the second time, I'm reminded that the book really isn't primarily about atonement theory at all. I'm not actually certain what it is, perhaps actually a follow-on to Dave Tomlinson's Post Evangelical.
Certainly, Chalke's book is a plea to recover the teachings of Jesus as central and important to what it means to be a Christian. I also think that Chalke's book is what is now the recognisable post-evangelical plea for church communities to be safe places to struggle with faith-issues. Something that, in my experience, is not possible in church communities that take a hard line on any doctrinal issue, be it penal substitutionary atonement, resurrection or 6-day twenty-four hour creation.
Anyway, I've just cracked open the book again for the second time, so more later.
27 May 2007
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