Scot McKnight Interview: “The King Jesus Gospel” & McnKnight Responds to Critics
Scot McKnight Interview: “The King Jesus Gospel” & McnKnight Responds to Critics
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Perhaps an industry of homelessness and an economy of “looks”…
After last week’s ironic mishap with the City of Chicago Traffic Authority I returned to the city humbled; not only spiritually but financially as well. Regardless, my empty stomach was starting to feel the pains of hunger at 12:30 in the afternoon just as Ho’Jo’s caught my peripheral. A quick diner-dash was in order as I settled for a $4.99 “double-duces” breakfast. Given my increased state of semiotic awareness it was the perfect opportunity to actually learn my waitress’s name and ask about her day.
Stepping out of the diner, I felt a sense of “new” about myself. The world was fully God’s, and it was mine to discover. From leaving Ho’Jo’s I walked toward the train and noticed a homeless man sitting along the path between me and the station. Being “aware,” I tried to look him in the eye as I walked past. But getting a block or so past him, I felt my heart being ripped from within my chest, “What if that was God?” My mind sped forward to envision judgment day where I’d see tapes of my life replay showing me walk past the King with little more than a glance and a head nod. “What you did to the least of these…”
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Ode to a dreamer…
If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, And endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, They will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~Henry David Thoreau~
Pay heed to the dreams and visions you’ve been given. They are NOT merely idle thoughts or wishful musings. With faith, trust, hope and perseverance, they CAN become your reality! The key is to take action on the dream or vision, ever moving confidently toward its’ realization.
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On wisdom…
The question came up to me last week, “What is the difference between our wisdom and God’s wisdom?”
The question sparked some great discussion and a personal mental re-ordering of sorts. Like organizing books upon a shelf arranged by their author and topic, these two thoughts came into mind.
While wisdom, you might say, is a sought after quality and a complement allotted to those who display tact and good choice, our wisdom is based solely upon past-tense – hindsight that is. Perhaps this is why wisdom and age are often parallel realities. Experience makes us wise. We learn from mistakes – ours and others – and then we offer those learning to others with a proven and true wisdom. Hindsight is, after all 20-20. It is. It happened. It can’t be challenged. Yet any wisdom that pertains to future events or experiences are mere speculation.
Our creator, however, who saw the sun set on the last day before even the first hour of creation’s apex came to be, has such a position on this topic of wisdom that he see future events with hind sight accuracy. God see the future with a clarity that surpasses that the level of which I can discern the past.
Now… about all those future things that were plaguing my mind…
PSALM 139:16
16Your eyes saw my unformed substance;in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
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This is why we run…
Because there’s something deeper yet within;
a great strength beneath the skin.
It’s bigger, stronger, faster than you’ve believed.
It’s in there, it’s in you, and it’s in me; deeper.When your lungs burn like fire,
and joints pop to the tune of crackling wood,
when sweat beads run your eyes ablaze,
it’s deeper.The running, is just how you get there.
It’s the venue, the method, the vehicle,
it’s the avenue by which you meet your
strongest, truest, deepest self.The miles, they come like chisel blows,
dislodging lies that this is as far as you go.
You’ll go farther. You’ll keep running,
because there’s something deeper.Passion is not learned – it’s accessed
it’s a giant barred within you.
This is your chance to find it,
greet it, unlock it, and live it out out; deeper.This, this is why we run.
45,000 will line up in the gates on 10.9.11 and each one has his or her deeper reason – an excuse they tell to themselves to force their body to keep running. There are as many reasons as there are runners, and this is mine: I run for water, but not for me – for those that don’t have it. You can support my deeper reason for running here.
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Fairytale reality…
Fierce. Wild. Passionate. These three words make up the thesis of John Eldredge’s book “Wild at Heart.” A book that I recently read while on vacation. I’ve never read a book quite like it. The book read me just as I was reading it. There were not many pages that I turned without feeling that Eldredge was speaking directly to me. Many times I closed the book with dazed amazement and a look on my face that asked “how did you know that about me?” Continue reading