Tony Hoshaw on the Kingdom of God

January 17, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from Tony Hoshaw:
Who belongs in or who gets the Kingdom of God? In an effort to answer that question, I want to rub together an understanding of 1 Corinthians 6:9 and an interpretation of Matthew 19:10-12.
Paul [...]

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Brian McLaren on the Kingdom of God

January 14, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from Brian McLaren:
The good news of the Kingdom of God is, according to Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the Gospel. John would agree - although he translates the phrase “kingdom of God” to “life of the ages” or [...]

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Melissa Johnson Bills on the Kingdom of God

January 11, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from Melissa Johnson Bills:
I was driving around earlier this week on an unseasonably warm and wet January day, already feeling a bit down because of the gray sky and leafless trees. I switched on my car radio [...]

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Josh Keaney on the Kingdom of God

January 9, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from Josh Keaney:
“The Kingdom of God is God’s vision for God’s creation and this vision is bigger than the Church.” This is what I tell the youth at my church when explaining the Kingdom of God because [...]

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Tony Jones on the Kingdom of God

January 7, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from Tony Jones:
Maybe you’ve seen this before: some well-meaning evangelist spray-paints “jesus is the answer” on the side of a railroad bridge. Then some smart aleck comes by later and adds “so what’s the question?”
It seems to [...]

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The Kingdom of God

January 4, 2008

The kingdom of God is a topic that I have been interested in for quite awhile, and I thought it would be interesting to start reflecting on it on my blog more. To begin that, I’ve decided to invite a host of guest bloggers to post their reflections on the kingdom of God here on [...]

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Progressive Christianity: Vol 4

April 5, 2005

4. By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who invite all people to participate in our community and worship life without insisting that they become like us in order to be acceptable (including but not limited to):

believers and agnostics,
conventional Christians and questioning skeptics
women and men,
those of all sexual orientations and gender identities,
those [...]

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