By J Fowler on 03/11/2010
Somehow we’ve boiled the good news of GOD’s kingdom down to a hyper-personalized fire insurance policy for eternity- with very little implications for the ‘here and now’. Or we boil it down to…
Posted in Features, Theology, Voice of One Calling | Tagged christian faith, GOD, Jesus, the gospel of the kingdom, Theology, what is the gospel message?, Whole-life Christian faith, whole-life discipleship
By Meg Dunn on 02/12/2010
Caring for the environment is a moral issue. How we interact with the world around us, not just with other people but with the stuff of the earth, is not a matter of right, but of responsibility…
Posted in Book Reviews, Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged Biblical view of Creation, book review, Christian ecology, christian stewardship, Christian worldview, Creation Care, Francis Schaeffer, Pollution and the Death of Man, Redeeming Creation: The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship, Theology
By J Fowler on 12/24/2009
We are creatures, limited and dependent, living in a world that God created out of the trinitarian community of love…It is our role as Christians to live as limited and dependent creatures so that the creation might flourish and all can enjoy the abundance that God has created…
Posted in Features, Interviews | Tagged agrarian, Biblical agrarian, book, Christian agrarian, christian faith, church farm movement, Creation Care, Environment & Creation, farming, Farming As A Spiritual Discipline, Gene Logsdon, interview, Joel Salatin, ragan sutterfield, stewardship, Sustainable Agriculture, Theology, Wendell Berry
By Dean Ohlman on 12/18/2009
The realization I came to a couple decades ago kindled a new hope in my heart—the understanding of the biblical promise that heaven was going to come to earth, and that the earth was going to be redeemed by “the Lamb who was slain”…
Posted in Features, Theology | Tagged Dean Ohlman, earth, eschatology, evangelical, future, heaven, Theology, Wonder of Creation
By Paul Littleton on 12/18/2009
I suspect that as long as the church remains in the world there will be reform movements calling her to greater faithfulness. I’d have to agree with the Protestant Reformers who believed that that was a good thing. Not perfect. But good. Semper Reformanda. Always Reforming.
Posted in Church & World History, Features, Theology | Tagged christian faith, Church History, church reform, monasticism, New Monasticism, new wineskins, Paul Littleton, reformation, semper reformanda, Theology
By Rich Vincent on 12/18/2009
An unbiblical view of creation will lead us to wrong living. Our theology affects our practice. Only a robust view of creation guides us in how we should live in God’s world.
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features, Theology | Tagged Biblical Worldview, Creation Care, psalm 104, Rich Vincent, science and faith, sustainable christian living, Theology, theology of creation, worldviews
By Becky Garrison on 12/16/2009
I wasn’t expecting a book to connect with me on such a visceral level. Through Brennan’s story, I saw how I had veered off the path. For all of my talk about how we need to put the Greatest Commandment into practice, I wasn’t exactly practicing what I preach.
Posted in Features, Life In The Spirit | Tagged Brennan Manning, humility, Jesus, love of GOD, Theology
By Dean Ohlman on 12/04/2009
Theologians have historically categorized the Bible and nature as “two books,”…The first book, comprised of the inspired Scriptures of the Jewish and Christian faith, is called “special revelation.” The second of God’s two revelations is the book of nature, termed “general revelation.”
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features, Theology | Tagged creation, natural world, Theology, worldviews
By Pam Fowler on 12/03/2009
Why do we view God in the way that we do? I have been thinking a lot about the way that I think about God and His character-I have also been thinking a lot about how I think life ought to be and my role in it. How much of these things are truth and how much has been implanted by our culture?
Posted in Features, Learning As We Go | Tagged christian living, culture, GOD our father, how we view GOD, kingdom economics, Theology, worldview
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