Dietrich Bonhoeffer has long been one of my favorites. Scot McKnight shares his view on Life Together and includes some quotes from the book that are worth remembering. I’d say that Life Together should be required reading for all 21st Century Christians.
Some of you have, in recent months, asked questions about the relationship between the Wheatland Mission and Emergent. Some have asked, “Is Wheatland Emergent?”. Still others have asked, in general, what the deal is with the Emerging/gent Church. What is known as the “emergent conversation” is something that I have followed, listened to for the last few years. Still, the terms, the players and the conversation partners areRead the rest of this entry »
If you don’t read Scot McKnight’s blog, Jesus Creed, you should. By the way, I don’t like using the word should all that much but here I really mean it.
One of my favorite subjects is hermeneutics, especially of the biblical variety. I know that is a bit nerdy but it is important nonetheless. Here is news of a hermeneutic quiz created by Scot McKnight. I am going to have to get a copy of the journal so I can take it. I predict that I will come out: moderate.
Wheatland... bring diapers for Young Lives tomorrow night. 21 hours ago
Wheatland Mission's Parent and Child Dedication Service Tomorrow night at 5:30. 1 day ago
@joshatblink Any suggs yet? My 2cts: OConners shrt stries, Merton's 7 StryMt., The RngofTruth by JB Phlps, &God Whos Thr by Schaeffer (mybe) 3 days ago
“I shall not find Christ at the end of my journey unless he accompanies me along the way.” - Esther De Waal, Celtic Way of Prayer
“Our chance to be healed comes when the waters of our life are disturbed.” – Elizabeth O’Conner, Call to Commitment
"It is not allowable to love the Creation according to the purposes one has for it, any more than it is allowable to love one’s neighbor in order to borrow his tools." - Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
"It has always been more difficult to come to terms with Jesus as the way than with Jesus as the truth. It is more difficult to realize the ways our thinking and behavior get fused into a life of relational love and adoration with neighbor and God, God and neighbor." - Eugene Peterson, "Christian Century", Nov 29, 2003
"Past is past. Past is not present. Did is not do. Was is not is."
- John Wesley Weasel in Book of the Dun Cowby Walter Wangerin.
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