Thinking Through the Big Picture

I’ve been thinking through the big picture of the bible and wrote down some stuff from books that I’ve been reading, and also from Adam Ellis’ summary on these blogs. Ellis’ words are in bold.
WHO ARE WE?
We are the people of God, created in his image. That image is distorted by the Fall but is [...]

Christians Wrong About Heaven says NT Wright in TIME

“Much of “traditional” Christianity gives the impression that God has these rather arbitrary rules about how you have to behave, and if you disobey them you go to hell, rather than to heaven. What the New Testament really says is God wants you to be a renewed human being helping him to renew his creation, [...]

On Christianity and Language

“A studio president once asked me if I believed in angels and demons. (My writing partner, Paul Boardman, and I had written them into a script the studio head had just purchased.) Sensing that he was really wanting to know if I was a Christian with an agenda, I said, ‘I think what I believe [...]

N.T. Wright on Mystery

“Part of the point of the doctrine of the trinity is that when we say ‘Father, Son and Spirit’ this doesn’t have the effect of having a q.e.d at the bottom.  It isn’t ‘Father, Son and Holy Spirit – there you are, told you so.  That’s all you need to know, put it in your [...]

N.T. Wright on Ultimate Reality

“Reality as we know it is the result of a creator god bringing into being a world that is other than himself, and yet which is full of his glory. It was always the intention of this god that creation should one day be flooded with his own life, in a way for which it [...]

Joel Osteen and NT Wright

Yesterday I watched Joel Osteen talk about how our habits affect what kind of people we become.
Today I listened to NT Wright talk about the Enlightenment and being for the world what Jesus was for Israel.
The difference?
I understood the smilin’ preacher.
I’ve read several negative things about ol’ Joel, and whether they’re merited or [...]

NT Wright: Christianity Is For This World

These two quotes are from an interview with NT Wright in Christianity Today on the difference between certain versions of Christianity and the one he feels is closer to the Bible’s version:
Christianity – Saving Souls?

For generations the church has been polarized between those who see the main task being the [...]

The Story of Reality

Imagine William Shakespeare wrote a play (hard to imagine, I know). It’s such a great play that many people think that actors should be hired to act out the play on stage. The problem is that the play is supposed to be five acts, but we only have the first four acts and [...]