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  • There are many reasons why people leave evangelical churches. Sometimes it has to do with lack of transcendence, mystery, or beauty. Others find a lack of seriousness and depth. Failing to receive any shepherding or discipleship with individual attention and care, they realize their experience at church is sort of like watching TV. This was the primary reason for my own abandonment of an evangelical megachurch. And, unfortunately, many who give up on their church eventually end up abandoning Christianity altogether, as was the case of my own mother many decades ago.
  • If Jesus was not raised, how are we to understand this man? If in His own self-understanding His Resurrection was central to His whole identity as Messiah, is there any possibility of reconstructing a Jesus worth worshipping in the absence of such a miracle?
  • Since 2009, Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, 32, has been imprisoned on the charge of apostasy. Although he has been sentenced to death, the final decision is now in the hands of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Written last summer, the following letter (translated from Farsi) by Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani to his flock is a moving testimony to God’s grace.
  • Of course, Satan loves war, violence, injustice, poverty, disease, oppression, immorality, and other displays of human sinfulness. And of course he is displeased whenever a cup of cold water is offered to a thirsty man in Christ's name. However, what he spends most of his time plotting is the displacement of Christ from the focal awareness, ministry, and mission of the church. Keeping unbelievers blind and believers distracted is his main strategy. Genuine renewal only comes when we realize that the church is always drawn to distractions and must always be redirected to Christ, always one generation away from becoming something other than the place in the world-the only place, in fact-where the finger points away from us to Christ, "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29).
  • Martin Luther opposed the "theology of the cross" to all "theologies of glory." The latter can be generally placed into three categories: three types of "ladders" we try to climb in order to see "God in the nude," as Luther put it. These ladders were mysticism, speculation, and merit. I would like to suggest a few contemporary expressions of the theology of glory along these lines.

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About Jesus Christ

  • If Jesus was not raised, how are we to understand this man? If in His own self-understanding His Resurrection was central to His whole identity as Messiah, is there any possibility of reconstructing a Jesus worth worshipping in the absence of such a miracle?

Discipleship & Evangelism

  • In his opening vision of the Apocalypse, John hears these words from the glorified Son: "Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades" (Rev. 1:17-18). Just as this triumphant indicative grounds Jesus' imperative, "Write therefore the things you have seen" in this remarkable book (v. 19), his announcement that all authority is in his hands is the rationale for the Great Commission's "Therefore, go...!"

Easter Week

  • If Jesus was not raised, how are we to understand this man? If in His own self-understanding His Resurrection was central to His whole identity as Messiah, is there any possibility of reconstructing a Jesus worth worshipping in the absence of such a miracle?

Prayer & Spiritual Life

  • Martin Luther opposed the "theology of the cross" to all "theologies of glory." The latter can be generally placed into three categories: three types of "ladders" we try to climb in order to see "God in the nude," as Luther put it. These ladders were mysticism, speculation, and merit. I would like to suggest a few contemporary expressions of the theology of glory along these lines.
  • There are many reasons why people leave evangelical churches. Sometimes it has to do with lack of transcendence, mystery, or beauty. Others find a lack of seriousness and depth. Failing to receive any shepherding or discipleship with individual attention and care, they realize their experience at church is sort of like watching TV. This was the primary reason for my own abandonment of an evangelical megachurch. And, unfortunately, many who give up on their church eventually end up abandoning Christianity altogether, as was the case of my own mother many decades ago.

Sin

  • Of course, Satan loves war, violence, injustice, poverty, disease, oppression, immorality, and other displays of human sinfulness. And of course he is displeased whenever a cup of cold water is offered to a thirsty man in Christ's name. However, what he spends most of his time plotting is the displacement of Christ from the focal awareness, ministry, and mission of the church. Keeping unbelievers blind and believers distracted is his main strategy. Genuine renewal only comes when we realize that the church is always drawn to distractions and must always be redirected to Christ, always one generation away from becoming something other than the place in the world-the only place, in fact-where the finger points away from us to Christ, "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29).

Study The Bible

  • Martin Luther opposed the "theology of the cross" to all "theologies of glory." The latter can be generally placed into three categories: three types of "ladders" we try to climb in order to see "God in the nude," as Luther put it. These ladders were mysticism, speculation, and merit. I would like to suggest a few contemporary expressions of the theology of glory along these lines.

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by Michael S. Horton

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