Theology That Bites Back
“When congregations build church buildings, this is either a testimony or a mask. It is either a declaration of what we are all becoming in Jesus Christ, or it is an attempt to substitute with blocks of stone what God will only receive from tender hearts.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 117
Introduction: As trendy as it may be to rage against the patriarchy, for progressive evangelicals, the key to doing this successfully is to rage against the exegesis, which is to say, to rage ...
“We are not to teach what the Bible says in bits and pieces, but rather are to gather it all up in a systematic whole.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 107
Letter to the Editor: Have you read Paul Bloom’s book “Against Empathy”? Amidst all the pushback to your conversation with Joe Rigney, Bloom wrote the book in 2016 and is an ...
Introduction: If our generation got any fruitier, it would have to be acknowledged from every quarter that somebody had put way too many mangoes in the fruit salad. This judgment of judicial ...
“We do not give ten percent so that God will leave us alone with our ninety percent. That would just be an ecclesiastical extortion racket. Rather, we give ten percent as tribute, a ten percent that says in a very tangible way that one hundred percent belongs to God. And it does not really matter how much of it there is. What matters is what percentage of it is blessed.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 106
“The Bible does tell us that God loves a cheerful giver (2 Cor. 9:7), but it does no good to harangue everybody with this glorious truth if the leadership of the church insists on doubling down on all the things that make cheerful giving impossible.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 101
“You cannot love God whom you have not seen, if you do not love your brother, whom you have not paid.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 103
Behind the Scenes: Some of the forces of diversity, as per their usual routine, spitting on the doors of our church office . . . Consider this as something of an inaugural round-up of sorts. So this last October, we here in Moscow had a little bit more excitement in the build up to November, …
