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October 2017
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Brad Jersak: Luther at 500: Reformation Then & Now – pg. 1
Ruth Tucker: Katie Luther – pg. 5
10 Things You Might Not Know about Luther – pg. 6
Brad Jersak: Reformation Now: Claims and Calls – pg. 7
Jessica Williams: I Am a Small Boat on a Raging Sea – pg. 8
Laura Urista: Connected to the Vine – pg. 10
Richard Rohr: The Greatest Commandments – pg. 11
Brian Zahnd: God is Love, God is Love – pg. 12
Greg Albrecht: “Should I attend my gay daughter’s wedding?” -pg. 14
Christ-centered faith vs Christless religion/spirituality – Brad Jersak
Lately, I’ve been noticing subtle differences between the popular ‘spirituality vs. religion’ and ‘faith vs. religion'
Some prefer ‘spirituality’ because it only implies one’s own spiritual self or soul (sans any god at all). So hiking the mountains is ‘spiritual’ because it nurtures the soul. True enough. However, I personally prefer to speak of ‘faith’ because my spiritual self or my soul has been freed and fed by a Love greater than my own … and indeed, faith freed me from religion in a way that spirituality hadn’t. As one Orthodox priest says, ‘Religion is a neurological disease and faith is its cure.’
I’m ...
Winter 2015
Articles:
God...More Than a "Christian"? -p4
When Poetry Devolves into Doctrine -p8
He's There For You & With You (God With Us)- p10
Why I Still Believe in God -p18
How the WORD Read the Word -p23
God Is Just Like Jesus - p25
God Is Love...and Love Never Ends -p26
You Are Worth More than Chewing Gum! -p31
Fall 2015
Articles:
Responding to the River of God's Grace -p4
Reading the Bible as an Epic Story -p8
Everything Happens for a Reason...Or? -p9
Giving Thanks to the Master -p11
Millennials and Money -p14
Don't Water it Down -p16
"Are you saved?" -p17
Jesus IS What God Has to Say -p19
Inspiried, Infallible & Inerrant? -p20
Does Recovering from Religion Have to be Morose p25
Are Bible Verses the Worst Thing Ever? -p26
Disarming Scripture -p28
Defending the Bible? -p31
Summer 2015
Articles:
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For -p4
Would you Choose the Truth Over Christ? -p11
Would you Choose Christ Over the Truth? -p12
"The Bible clearly says..." -p13
You Can't Imagine How Much He Loves You -p15
The Church As We Know It -p17
Regret--the Silent Killer -p18
Rx for Remorse, Regret, Resentment -p22
In the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud -p24
Behaving Badly -p26
The Calf Path -p30
The Only Way to Really Get It -p31
How we respond to the fall of a spiritual abuser – David Hayward
This cartoon depicts the danger of surrendering our dignity and rights to a spiritual abuser.
I read Adrian Warnock’s thoughts on Mark Driscoll and the Acts 29 story. Warnock’s thoughts can be summed up with the following:
Accept it. We shouldn’t be alarmed by what’s happening with Driscoll. No church is perfect. No pastor is perfect. These things happen. Paul and Barnabas are an example of disputes within the church.
Back off. Warnock blames the internet for a lot of the problem because everything gets reported by everybody for everyone to see. We don’t really know what happened. Most of the criticisms ...