This text focuses on Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness. Chronologically, Jesus has been baptized. His identity and vocation have been affirmed. Now he is led by the Spirit into the bleak Judean wilderness. Jesus is tested three times regarding making fast food, bungee jumping without a rope, just a little worship of the other team.
Jesus’ ministry now begins in earnest. He has been baptized in the Jordan, and he has been tested in the wilderness. Now Jesus begins to announce that God’s new way, rooted and extending from God’s always way, is here. To a people walking in darkness, to a people with fleeting hope, to a people living […]
Here is a book that received my “happy face” seal of approval (the highest honor possible). Roger Olson’s Reformed and Always Reforming: The Postconservative Approach to Evangelical Theology (Baker Academic, 2007). Some of us are thinking different theologically. Sometimes it feels like we are on shaky ground, but this way of doing theology seems to […]
Brian McLaren has a new book out–Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crisis, and a Revolution of Hope (Thomas Nelson, 2007). Buy this book and read this book. It will disturb you and challenge you. It just might make you angry. Read this book! We who live in a Western, capitalistic, individualistic world need to be […]
How (Not) to Speak of God by Peter Rollins (Paraclete, 2006) is a fabulous book! Rollins is founder of the Icon community in Northern Ireland. He offers a way of looking at the study of God from a perspective of humility, mystery and wonder. Rather than making God the object of our intellectual pursuits, we […]