Emerging church and the Kingdom of God
December 22, 2009 by
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by Scot McKnight Emergent is no longer just emerging. It has in many respects emerged. Though some things remain unclear, what you see is what it is and, more importantly, what you see is also where it is going. Where it is going is in the direction of gospel expansion. Is emergent “evangelical”? Some answer [...]
Missional Shift or Drift?
November 22, 2009 by
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Report by Helen Lee In the summer of 2000, Mike Lueken had every reason to be proud as a pastor of Oak Hills Church in Folsom, California. Every Sunday, thousands of people flocked to Oak Hill’s sixteen acre campus with its 35,000-square-foot facility, and the church was doing everything that a thriving, suburban megachurch with [...]
How the Kingdom of God advances strategically
July 22, 2009 by
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by Colin Stoodley In recent days I have begun to observe something about the Kingdom of God in the earth. And it all began when I read Acts again towards the end of last year – actually I’ve read it at least once every year for a long time, but it was this year [...]
The Kingdom is Here!
June 22, 2009 by
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The Right to a Healthy Community by G. Stephen Goode. Some Pharisees asked Jesus when God’s kingdom would come. He answered, “God’s kingdom isn’t something you can see. There is no use saying, `Look! Here it is’ or `Look! There it is.’ God’s kingdom is here with you.” Luke 17:20-21 What do the values of [...]
Kingdom is in the Holy Spirit
June 12, 2009 by
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The Kingdom is in the Holy Spirit by Derek Brown How is the Kingdom outworked? 1. Jesus gave to His disciples the message of the Kingdom – Gospels, Acts 1:3 2. Then He and the Father sent the Holy Spirit to bring the Kingdom.- John 14:26, 16:7 3. Our responsibility is to understand the message [...]
Building Monday’s church
May 22, 2009 by
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by Brian Medway We are facing a long term problem in the church. We have the right doctrine, we have good preaching and teaching capabilities and we have access to every kind of resource we can name in order to do our job, but we are not doing our job. Despite the succession of short [...]
The Kingdom of God and Rove McManus
March 22, 2009 by
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by Colin Stoodley Have you ever heard people speak of the Kingdom of God? This is not the time to explain it in full, but Jesus spoke about it all the time. He was always telling stories to try and explain what it looked like? I’ve been wondering what He’d say now if He [...]
Celebrating Life: Beyond the Sacred-Secular Divide
February 25, 2009 by
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by Graham Buxton These are some extracts from the first chapter of Graham Buxton’s new book Celebrating Life: Beyond the Sacred-Secular Divide. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2007. Chapter One What has the gospel to do with culture? A brief exploration of the concept of dualism from the perspectives of philosophy, history, theology and culture In recent [...]
Spheres of Kingdom Life
February 22, 2009 by
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by Graham Buxton 1. Celebrating Life – my new book – has everything to do with affirming the goodness of God’s creation and of human life, including the myriad different ways in which human beings express that life in contemporary society, whether in poetry and politics, in movies and management, or in sculpture and science [...]
The Contours of the Kingdom of God
January 22, 2009 by
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by Graham Buxton 1. Open with a brief biblical understanding of the Kingdom of God – Jewish ideas. 2. Three great truths about the Kingdom of God that are disclosed in Jesus Christ: The coming of the Kingdom in advance of its full and final manifestation – the Kingdom is both now and not-yet. The [...]
