Category Archives: Faith
Pihop, Bethel, Jake Hamilton and the Tensions of Charismatic Faith
One of the interesting dynamics at the School of Supernatural Ministry at Pihop that I am involved in is that it is the combination of two separate movements of the Holy Spirit. On one hand there is Bethel and on … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Charismatic, Christianity, Jake Hamilton, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Pentecostalism, tensions of faith
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The Christian Social Economics of Exclusion and Vilification: The Pharisees v2.0
The Christian religious system has rather thoroughly replicated the conditions, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and social organization of the Pharisees. This has not surprisingly rather thoroughly replicated the error of the Pharisees and the social economy of the Christian religious system revolves … Continue reading
The Christian Social Economics of Exclusion and Vilification: Bounded Set Communities
Before the rest of this post you need to watch this Youtube video by Dave Schmelzer. He presents a great explanation of Bounded Set and Centered Set thinking and it relates to religious communities. While Schmelzer talks about both, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bounded Set vs. Centered Set thinking, Christian hypocrisy, Christianity, community organization, cultural values, exclusion, favoritism, hypocrisy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Pharisees, religious communities, religious values, The Bounded Set, the error of the Pharisees, values, vilification
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The Christian Social Economics of Exclusion and Vilification: The Error of the Pharisees
[So far I have talked about how the most common approach to the Bible in Christianity is highly problematic, how Christianity is secular in most of its practices and how the most common Christian spirituality sets Christians up for failure. … Continue reading
Understanding the Heart of the Father
In my last post I talked about how the spirituality of followers of Jesus should be and suggested that issues of identity are incredibly important. I felt more should be said on this issue since I think a lot of … Continue reading
Signs that Make you Wonder: A glory cloud and fresh oil coming from a woman’s hand.
On October 19th, at our Wednesday night class at the School of Supernatural ministry we watched a video of a sign God did at Bethel church in Redding the Friday before. Apparently while the community was gathered late at night … Continue reading
The Spirituality of the Beloved Princes and Princesses
The healthiest model of the spiritual dynamics of those following Jesus Christ I know of comes from Dr. Chuck Miller in his book The Spiritual Formation of Leaders. Also, buy this book. It is worth $100. This model is called … Continue reading
The Christian Spirituality of Try Harder you Sinner
Dr. Dale Ryan, a professor here at Fuller who was a pastor for a number of decades suggests that if you took all of the sermons preached on Sunday in American and put them in a giant pot, and boiled … Continue reading
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Tagged burn out, Christianity, performance based faith, scandal, spirituality, try harder, works righteousness
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Signs that Make you Wonder: My Prophetic Words from Pihop
Last July a large part of my journey of faith was receiving prophetic words and words of encouragement at the Well, a ministry that Pihop runs every Saturday night. The accuracy of these words and the situations they spoke … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, Jesus Christ, ministry, prophetic, The Well, words of knowledge
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The Christian Social Economics of Exclusion and Vilification: The Family of God, an alternative approach.
[In previous posts on this point I have explained how the Pharisees became preoccupied with excluding others, with maintaining and observing outwardly observable traditions and laws, and using the Bounded Set paradigm for understanding their own community. This led to … Continue reading →