“Changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.” Henri Nouwen Social radicalism apart from faith “has been like a cut flower without nourishment, without any sanctions deeper than human courage and good intentions.” Walter Brueggemann[i] For the first three hundred …
Polishing the Brass on the Titanic?
Is John MacArthur Right About Social Justice? (Part 6 of 6) "If I criticize somebody, it’s because I have higher hopes for the world, something good to replace the bad.” Mort Sahl At long last we’ve come to my final rant contesting John MacArthur’s sermon series on “Social Justice and the Gospel.” In this series …
How do we get “prosperity” (shalom)?
To refresh our memories, God deported the Jews to Babylon for a lifetime (70 years). This prosperity preacher’s opus (Jeremiah 29:11) is part (only part) of the letter to the exiles that he inspired Jeremiah to write. If you’ll look at the entire letter you’ll see that just four verses before he commanded them to: …
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