“Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.” 1 Peter 2:12 There’s an old saying, “He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.” We Christians have to decide if …
Have A Revolutionary Christmas!
“The Bible,” claimed one little girl to her Sunday School class, “ends in Revolutions!” Her mispronunciation of the Bible’s last book notwithstanding, she got something right. The God of the Bible initiates and sustains REVOLUTIONS. Another young girl got this in her famous song. Can you guess the song and its author? The song was …
Servant Subversion versus “Domination”
“The problem with our “change the world” rhetoric is that it is too often a thinly veiled grasp for power and a quest for dominance—things that are antithetical to the way Jesus calls his disciples to live.” Brian Zahnd Every time in history the Church has tried to raise the Christian flag over a nation, a …
Servant Subversion versus Exploitation
Jesus, our prototypical Subversive, was a culture-changing, foot-washing troublemaker! He insists that playing on his team entails more than having his name on the front of our jerseys. When we say that we aspire to be like him are we just talking about his clean-talking, drug-free, conservative-voting niceness? Or do we mean that we’re following …
Servant Subversion versus Fortification
When I embarked on it I had no idea that this writing on Jeremiah 29:11 would take me on such a circuitous, even arduous, journey. I confess that I’ve ranted more than I intended about such things as the nature of “prosperity”, how we achieve it, and when we will fully receive it. In my …
