What's so good about fall? Is God *really* immutable? What should we wear to weddings?
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God promises to meet us, changing our lives. We may not be knocked off a horse and blinded like Paul was but Christ will meet us. The faithfulness of Jesus Christ is an invitation to set aside the gains of this life, leaving behind the old markers of confidence and swagger, and now lean into the amazing grace of God in Jesus Christ.
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Is there such a thing as too much coffee? Are clergy allowed to sin? Why does Paul have so much swagger?
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David Gushee is our guest on Crackers & Grape Juice. His new book is After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity.
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It is difficult to put into words the anguish we feel for this amount of life that has been lost.
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“Because of God's completed work, we are already IN Christ and on that basis, not on the basis of our growth or transformation, we are saints.”
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This is a book that should be required reading for all Christians, especially Christians living in the United States in 2020.
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Grace comes to us in the ordinary - in bread and wine, and in water.
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"God is love, Who's he kidding?"
We now live in the realest world, already transformed by Christ. Church, at its best, is just renewing our minds once a week to realize what Christ has already accomplished in spite of, and for, us.
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“It is true that theological doctrines and religious practices do shape and form religious experience, but it is no less true that experience tends to resist such shaping and forming. Attention to the complex interaction of these two insights is a key dimension of the account of “grace as experience” that follows below.”
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Does God so detest sin, and those who commit sin, that God is willing to turn a divine blind-eye on creation or worse, send the plagues again to East Africa while raising the temperatures in Siberia to 100+ degrees, or send a catastrophic worldwide pandemic?
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“Moralistic liberalism and individual pietism are mirror evils that have made the church understood as the distinctive Body of Christ virtually invisible in America.”
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There are a lot of ways to spin my inability to effectively sustain plant growth but at the end of the day, I’d be doing what we do best in DC - spinning a positive tale on a negative reality.
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God offers us an exit ramp off this tortuous merry-go-round and onto a higher way of living in which we work and do and strive not as a way to save ourselves or prove our worth but as an expression of love, joy, God-given purpose and connection to something larger.
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In Jesus Christ, in the power of his resurrection, and by the power of the Spirit of God we have been made free, no longer condemned, no longer guilty, and now invited, all of us, to live according to God’s Grace.
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Solitude as an outward spiritual discipline creates community by respecting it.
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The quarantine playlist from Crackers & Grape Juice
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What's the best biblical story for VBS? Should we look to the Bible to help with our family problems? What does Romans tell us about the Gospel?
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If I wanted to share the gospel with anyone who wasn’t white, I would have to abandon the secular faith of my ancestors. The two were irreconcilable."
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