What Jesus Has To Say About the American Economic Crisis

What does Jesus really say about our current financial crisis?
Evangelicals who want to know how to pray for our economy and its leaders deserve to hear the Bible’s message for these financial times.
As a result of in-depth study on the subject of Biblical Principles for Financial Success, jesus Shaped Spirituality can now release to the [...]

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Mark 12:1-22…with a few textual additions

Mark 12:1 Then Jesus began teaching them with stories: “A man planted a vineyard. He built a wall around it, dug a pit for pressing out the grape juice, and built a lookout tower. Then he leased the vineyard to tenant farmers and moved to another country.2 At the time of the grape harvest, he [...]

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Reduced to Jesus

From September, 2006 at IM. The reference to soli deo was to a home worship group I was leading at the time.
I get called a lot of names around the blogosphere. Everything from “pomo devil” to “respected blogger.” (Now there’s an oxymoron.) When you’re a “cage phase” blogger (there goes another one) you write long [...]

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The Light of a Most Obvious Question: How Hanging Out With Jesus Is Changing My Christianity

Over at Internetmonk.com, I have some “Jesus Shaped” posts that need to see the light of day, so I’m going to roll them out every so often and repost them in a category here.
Stand by for: How Hanging Out With Jesus Is Changing My Christianity. Originally posted December 2005 at Internet Monk.com.
Dedication: A few weeks [...]

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The Jesus Question

For those of you who have spent the last week watching Michael Phelps or googling “Bigfoot,” evangelical megachurch guru Rick Warren is going to host a forum for the two Presidential candidates at Saddleback Church today. Each one gets an hour of identical questions from the closest thing evangelicals have to a generic papal type [...]

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More from David Hayward.
I’m ashamed at how often I’ve been the speaker in this cartoon, and more amazed that God loves me despite it all.

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Jesus In Your Bank Account

Mark 4:18 The seed that fell among the thorns represents others who hear God’s word, 19 but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things, so no fruit is produced.
I Timothy 6: 17 Teach those who are rich in [...]

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Where is Jesus? (Part 5)

Before concluding this series (and turning it into a sermon), let’s review with some application, then look at three other scriptures elsewhere in the New Testament that speak directly to the question.
Using the letter to the Ephesians as a kind of summary theology, we discover that post-resurrection, the Christian has a rich diversity of ways [...]

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Where is Jesus? (Part 4)

Apparently, some of my Catholic readers believe that everything I write is somehow an attack on Roman Catholicism.
Let me suggest that perhaps the view from inside evangelicalism is a bit different than it is from outside of it. For example, when people are desperate to “experience God,” as evangelicals like to say, then religious [...]

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Learning From The Little: Who does Jesus Want You to See?

Luke 21:1-4 Just then he looked up and saw the rich people dropping offerings in the collection plate. Then he saw a poor widow put in two pennies. He said, “The plain truth is that this widow has given by far the largest offering today. All these others made offerings that they’ll never miss; she [...]

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