Mark 6:30-44 — A Missional Table
Jesus sent (apostellein) his disciples with authority over demons and diseases (6:7). The apostles (apostoloi) returned reporting what “they had done and taught.” They followed Jesus into the practice...
View ArticleWhat Was the Mission of Christ? David Lipscomb Answers
I am often amazed at how some contemporary writers–missional and emergent–seem to believe that they have embraced a new vision for the mission of God. It also amazes me that some more traditional...
View ArticleZechariah 8:1-17 – God Remembers Jerusalem
In December 518 representatives from Bethel came to Judah and asked the leaders whether they should continue their lament fasts over the fall of Jerusalem (Zechariah 7:1-3). Zechariah responded with...
View ArticleLenten Reflection: Luke 4:3-4
God tests Jesus in the wilderness and Satan tempts him to satisfy his desires by inappropriate means. One need is hunger. It would seem that satisfying hunger should not be characterized as...
View ArticleDavid Lipscomb: South Nashville Churches of Christ (1906)
While doing some research in Nashville newspapers, I encountered this piece by David Lipscomb: “South Nashville Church of Christ,” Daily American (January 17, 1906), p. 8. I thought it was interesting...
View Article1 Peter 2:4-10 — Identified with Israel
This section is soaked in quotations, allusions, and echoes of the Hebrew Scriptures. Peter depends heavily on Isaiah 28:16, Psalm 118:22, Isaiah 8:14, Isaiah 43:20-21, Exodus 19:5-6, Isaiah 42:12, and...
View ArticleReading Jonah
“The word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai” (1:1) Shipmates, this book containing only four chapters—four yearns—is one of the smallest strands in the mighty cable of the Scriptures. Yet...
View ArticleJonah 1:2-3 – We are all Jonah
When Jonah, a prophet who stands before the face of Yahweh, is commissioned to cry out against the evil in Nineveh ascending before the face of Yahweh, Jonah flees from the face of Yahweh to Tarshish,...
View ArticleMissional Exiles–A Word from Jeremiah 29:4-7
In 597 B.C.E. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, exiled Jehoiakim, the King of Judah, along with some 3,000 others to Babylon. This was the second deportation from Judah (an earlier one was in 605...
View ArticleTheodrama: Act I, Scene 3 – God Invests Humanity with Dignity and Mission
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing...
View ArticleAlexander Campbell’s Relationship to Protestantism
The following is three paragraphs from a paper which I have just placed on my Academic page. The paper is entitled “The Unfinished Business of the Protestant Reformation: Alexander Campbell’s...
View ArticleTheodrama in Five Acts
The video is available here. The Bible tells the story of God. There are many threads within that story and many rabbit trails which one might pursue, but there is one overarching plot to the drama....
View ArticleLenten Reflection: Luke 4:3-4
God tests Jesus in the wilderness and Satan tempts him to satisfy his desires by inappropriate means. One need is hunger. It would seem that satisfying hunger should not be characterized as...
View ArticleDavid Lipscomb: South Nashville Churches of Christ (1906)
While doing some research in Nashville newspapers, I encountered this piece by David Lipscomb: “South Nashville Church of Christ,” Daily American (January 17, 1906), p. 8. I thought it was interesting...
View Article1 Peter 2:4-10 — Identified with Israel
This section is soaked in quotations, allusions, and echoes of the Hebrew Scriptures. Peter depends heavily on Isaiah 28:16, Psalm 118:22, Isaiah 8:14, Isaiah 43:20-21, Exodus 19:5-6, Isaiah 42:12, and...
View ArticleReading Jonah
“The word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai” (1:1) Shipmates, this book containing only four chapters—four yearns—is one of the smallest strands in the mighty cable of the Scriptures. Yet...
View ArticleJonah 1:2-3 – We are all Jonah
When Jonah, a prophet who stands before the face of Yahweh, is commissioned to cry out against the evil in Nineveh ascending before the face of Yahweh, Jonah flees from the face of Yahweh to Tarshish,...
View ArticleMissional Exiles–A Word from Jeremiah 29:4-7
[Sermon preached at Woodmont Hills Church of Christ in Nashville, TN.] In 597 B.C.E. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, exiled Jehoiakim, the King of Judah, along with some 3,000 others to Babylon. This...
View ArticleTheodrama: Act I, Scene 3 – God Invests Humanity with Dignity and Mission
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing...
View ArticleAlexander Campbell’s Relationship to Protestantism
The following is three paragraphs from a paper which I have just placed on my Academic page. The paper is entitled “The Unfinished Business of the Protestant Reformation: Alexander Campbell’s...
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