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Celebrities or Martyrs? Matthew 4:1-11

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Kurt in Biblical Reflections, Comments on Culture, Relevant Books 2 Comments

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.

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The Provocative Ways of Jesus–Matthew 4:12-23

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Kurt in Biblical Reflections, Relevant Books No Comments

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 […]

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Book Recommendation: Reformed and Always Reforming by Roger Olson

Posted on November 25, 2007 by Kurt in Relevant Books 1 Comment

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 […]

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Book Recommendation: Everything Must Change by Brian McLaren

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Kurt in Comments on Culture, Relevant Books No Comments

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 […]

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Recommended Book: How (Not) to Speak of God

Posted on October 20, 2007 by Kurt in Relevant Books No Comments

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 […]

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