This sermon was delivered during COVID, outside of our regular facilities. So please excuse the poor audio quality.
Our Righteous, Wrath-Satisfying Intercessor (1 John 2:1-2)
CrossWay Community Church
July 5th, 2020
Fellowship in the Apostolic Gospel (1 John 1:1-4)
This sermon was delivered outdoors during COVID. So please excuse the poor audio quality.
Fellowship in the Apostolic Gospel (1 John 1:1-4)
CrossWay Community Church
June 14th, 2020
The Church & Politics (Jonathan Leeman)
In this episode, Kirk sits down with pastor and political theologian Jonathan Leeman to talk Church and politics. They discuss, what is the relationship between church and state? Religion and politics? And how do we love those with whom we disagree politically?
Access the episode here (available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and more).
Resources from Leeman on politics:
- How The Nations Rage: Rethinking Faith and Politics in a Divided Age (2018)
- Political Church: The Local Assembly as Embassy of Christ’s Rule (2016)
- How Can I Love Church Members with Different Politics? (2020) // [Update: A free audio recording of the book is now available as well.]
- “Politics, Conscience, and the Church: Why Christians Passionately Disagree with One Another over Politics, Why They Must Agree to Disagree over Jagged-Line Political Issues, and How” (Themelios: 45:1, 2020)
George Floyd – Biblical & Theological Reflections
A statement from this morning’s service at CrossWay Community Church regarding the recent tragic events concerning Goerge Floyd as well as many others.
OUR MISSION (MISSIOLOGY) – “to make maturing followers of Jesus by the power of the gospel…” (CrossWay MKE). We are called therefore to…
- Embody the transforming effects of the gospel.
- To uniquely demonstrate these things to our surrounding society in the precise moments they long and grasp for these things themselves (=witness).
- Also, inasmuch as we are able, to see the transforming effects of the gospel to pervade and impact our surrounding society.
- to obey all that Christ commanded (Mt 28), carrying these things even into the realms of our society.
- to seek the good of our city in which we are exiles, inasmuch as we have opportunity (Jer 29:7).
DOCTRINE OF HUMANITY (ANTHROPOLOGY) – Every person is made in the image of God; every life is valuable; every person and every people is worthy of dignity and just treatment (there are no “lesser” people).
DOCTRINE OF GOD’S LAW – God commands us to love him with all our heart, mind, and strength (=the greatest commandment); and the second is a necessary corollary of the first–that we love our fellow neighbors who bear his image.
DOCTRINE OF GOD (THEOLOGY) – A God of justice, who is righteously furious and wrathful with injustice; who puts himself on the side of those subjected to mistreatment and oppression. And as those who are his, we are called to reflect his character (“to be holy as he is holy”), to care about what he cares about.
ESV Reader’s Bible (with Chapter and Verse Numbers) — A Review
Introduction
- What is a reader’s Bible?
- Why a reader’s Bible?
- This particular reader’s Bible → chapter and verse markings.
Features
- 6 volume set: (1) Pentateuch, (2) Historical Books, (3) Poetry, (4) Prophets, (5) Gospel & Acts, (6) Epistles & Revelation (following LXX order, standard in English translations).
- Comes with permanent slipcase/holder.
- Cloth-over-board (hardcover).
- Also available: premium goatskin edition; single-volume version.
- Single-column.
- Generous spacing.
- 12 point font.
- Higher quality, thicker paper.
- Smaller, less obtrusive verse markings.
- Chapter and verse location provided in corners.
- Black text (no red letter).
- Minimal use of headings.
- No cross references or citation references.
- No footnotes.
Conclusions
- Provides a format to experience and interact with the Bible less like a reference work.
- A more enjoyable experience, like reading a “regular” book.
- Helps with reading larger quantities of scripture (provides more accurate perception).
- I prefer the inclusion of chapter and verse markings in this version (best of both worlds).
- Probably needs to be a supplement to a regular one-volume versions of the Bible. (This will be my “at-home” Bible.)
- I’d prefer is they had ditched the headers altogether.
Pricing
- $200 retail (I found at $115 elsewhere).
- Premium leather edition = $500 ($280 elsewhere).
- Single-volume edition = $20+.
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