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Founding pastor of Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri; author of eleven books, including The Wood Between the Worlds.
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When “Left Behind” fantasies are privileged over the Beatitudes the gospel plot has been lost.
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"We must take our subtle spiritual intuitions seriously and view them as the quintessence that underlies the ordinary world. The rejection of the sacred is the fundamental reason for our existential discontent."
–Nick Cave
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Maybe.
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In Acts 10 Peter preaches the gospel in the home of the Roman centurion Cornelius. In his sermon the apostle tells the soldier how Jesus was "put to death by hanging him on a tree."
(Selah)
Where do we find Christ in Joshua 10? Not among the executioners, but among the hanged
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I'll preach on this in my sermon "Astonished Ecstasy."
(The modern icon is "Christ and Myrrhbearers" by Ivanka Demchuk.)
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It’s not a bad plan.
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This holy ethos is the very opposite of what we find in the imperial/nationalist distortions of Christianity obsessed with political power and worldly “greatness.”
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Now I’m sitting in the Cleveland airport waiting to fly back to Kansas City. I’m looking forward to being home for seven uninterrupted weeks. It’s all been wonderful and I’m grateful for the opportunities to do what I do, but at some point you just need to go home.
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and risen Christ.
Otherwise we are left with nothing more than historical-critical literary archeology. This may be interesting, but it’s not reading Scripture.
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"The question still remains for the church as it has for the people of God in all of Scripture--Beast or Lamb?"
Congratulations to Matt and Will on the release of their new book!
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