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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Children and the Bible

By and others ⋅ November 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve just enjoyed reading and look forward to using and highly recommend Beth Barnett’s new mega-resource Beth Barnett, Welcome Mat: A resource for opening the Bible with children, adults and teens (Melbourne: Scripture Union, 2010) Welcome Mat is a 262 page toolbox of ideas and principles for family mission, worship and Bible-engagement. Written initially for […]

The Emerging Evangelicals

By and others ⋅ November 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Sightings* 11/18/2010 Jenny Rae Armstrong The recent GOP rebound has been regarded by many as a victory belonging to rifle-toting, SUV driving, born-again Christians. But to oversimplify evangelicals in this manner is to ignore a growing rift within their ranks. Few mainstream evangelicals have attempted to link laissez-faire capitalism with the teachings of Jesus. Even […]

Church Year Spirituality: Living in God’s Story

By and others ⋅ November 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

November 16, 2010 by Chaplain Mike In our introduction to this series, “Church Year Spirituality,” I gave five primary reasons why I think it advantageous for Christians to form their spiritual lives—their walk with God through Christ—around the liturgical year. It enables us to live in God’s story. It keeps the main thing the main thing. It […]

The Prosperity Gospel: All That Glitters Is Not Gold

By and others ⋅ November 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Author: Daniel Bourdanné Date: 02.09.2010 Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Daniel Bourdanné as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Poverty, Prosperity and the Gospel.” Responses to this paper through the Lausanne Global Conversation will be fed back to the author and […]

Jottings from Marcus Borg (The God We Never Knew)

By and others ⋅ November 13, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

* ‘Because I see myself as a nonspecialist, I do not see this book as a scholarly discussion of God but as an accessible exposition of some quite general insights about the importance of how we think about God’ (vii) * God to Moses: ‘I am who I am’. Martin Buber: the Hebrew verb ehyeh […]

Preaching is Primary

By and others ⋅ October 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Preaching is Primary Christian Standard Magazine, Reflections Section An Interview of Dr. Myron J. Taylor by L.D. Campbell Preaching has always been primary in our churches. Our churches have produced some great preachers, men whose names are synonymous with preaching. Myron Taylor is one of the great preachers in our brotherhood. He recently retired from […]

The Perfect Mirror (Jn 18:1-19:37)

By and others ⋅ October 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The Perfect Mirror (Jn 18:1-19:37) by Barbara Brown Taylor There are many ways to tell the story of what happened on Good Friday. According to John, it involved a collision between religion and politics. While Pilate and the chief priests conspired to solve their mutual problem while managing to remain enemies, Jesus stood at the […]

The Historical Jesus and the Life of Faith

By and others ⋅ October 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

by David L. Bartlett David L. Bartlett is Lantz Professor of Communication and Preaching at Yale University Divinity School. This article appeared in The Christian Century, May 6, 1992, pp. 489-493. Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation; used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at http://www.christiancentury.org. Article prepared for Religion Online […]

The Historical Jesus and Christian Theology (N T Wright)

By and others ⋅ October 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

(Originally published in Sewanee Theological Review 39, 1996. Reproduced by permission of the author.) N. T. WRIGHT The quest for the historical Jesus began as a protest against traditional Christian dogma, but when the supposedly ‘‘neutral” historians peered into the well, all they saw was a featureless Jesus. Even when scholars decided that other biblical […]

The Wright Quest for the Historical Jesus

By and others ⋅ October 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

by Ben Witherington, III Ben Witherington III, professor of New Testament interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, is the author of The Jesus Quest and The Christology of Jesus. This article appeared in The Christian Century, November 19-26, 1997, pp. 1075-1078. Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation, used by permission. Current articles and […]

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