jesus my center

As we come to Easter, we are reminded of the absolute place that Jesus has over our minds, hearts, lives, and imaginations. Listen to the ever-worshipful Lesslie Newbigin here:
That which is disclosed in Jesus Christ is the very character and will from which all that is proceeds. For the believer who, by the [...]

obedience as worship

When one looks at the Gospel records themselves it is clear that “…Jesus did not ask for homage but obedience. He always had much more to lose from his friends than from his enemies. Admiration has always blunted his sword. It serves to dull the original outrage of his mission. Veneration assumes [...]

beyond the sacred and the secular

One of the most immediate implications of genuine monotheism as we have outlined, is that if taken seriosuly, it obliterates any false distinction between the sacred and the secular. If all of the world lies under God’s redeeming claim, and our task as his people is to hallow the everyday, then there can be [...]

christocentric monotheism: part two (ohh!)

Yahweh’s claim is absolute—it claims all. “When God invades man’s consciousness, man’s reliance on ‘peace and security’ vanishes from every nook of his existence. His life as a single whole becomes vulnerable. Broken down are the bulkheads between the chambers which confine explosions to one compartment. When God chooses man, He invests [...]

christocentric monotheism: part one (eh?)

As we have seen (in the last few posts) , the ‘gift’ that persecution bestows on the people of God is the clarification of the central message of the Church. This in turn begs the question; what is that message? What does it look and feel like when reduced to utter simplicity? This study [...]

recovering our primary love

As I wait for my visa, I have put myself to writing the new book on Christology with Mike Frost. This book will be first and foremost a call for the church at the dawn of the 21st Century to rediscover its first, and therefore our primary, love (”Nevertheless I have this against you, [...]

just to make a point

“The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its element is a very simple thing. It asks for no elaborate organization, no large finances, no great numbers of paid missionaries. In its beginning it may be the work of one man and that of a man neither learned in the things of this [...]

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