Tag Archives: Jesus Christ
The Denial of the Spiritual Realm in Western Christianity
Years ago, I was doing outreach every Friday night in the Lower-East side of Vancouver, British Columbia. I regularly met with several people including Bev, a First Nations (Native American) woman. One Friday, I met her boyfriend. At the time, … Continue reading
Posted in a Christian response to evil, Faith, Personal Commentary
Tagged a Christian response to evil, Bible, Christainity in crisis, Christian miracles, Christianity, civil religion, denial of the supernatural realm, do healings happen today?, do miracles happen today?, evil, Jesus, Jesus Christ, secular Christianity, signs and wonders, spiritual crisis, what does the Bible say about miracles
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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
Posted in Faith, Personal Commentary, Why do we believe...
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
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
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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To hallmarks of following Jesus: a life altering allegiance and being empowered by the Spirit of God
So if following Jesus was not supposed to look like what is on offer in most of Christian, what was it supposed to look like? While this is a much larger topic, I want to just bring up two of … Continue reading
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Transparency in the Family of God: The tension.
Dysfunctional families always share a core set of rules that everyone is required to obey. One of the central rules is a rule to not talk. This code of silence keeps family members from talking about what is going on … Continue reading →