Gospel – Page 5 – Red Letter Christians

Good Weeds: The Gospel as a Good Contagion

September 14, 2012

CS Lewis used to describe the Gospel as ‘a good contagion’. I would describe the continuing emergence or out-working of the Gospel as the equivalent of good weeds. No matter how much solid legalism, suffocatin...

Healing Toxic Faith: Did Jesus die to save us from God?

Derek Flood

September 10, 2012

Theology

Why did Jesus have to die? Was it to appease a wrathful God's demand for punishment? Does that mean Jesus died to save us from God? How could someone ever truly love or trust a God like that? How can that ever ...

Bankers are Going to Hell (and Other Ways to Play Fast and Loose with the Bible)

Craig M. Watts

June 21, 2012

Theology

Source: Gaston Gazette “Bankers are going to Hell!” the woman I was speaking to brusquely insisted. A bit surprised, I asked, “What makes you think so?” “Jesus teaches it!” s...

How Does a Red Letter Christian Read the Bible?: A Jesus-shaped Proposal

Derek Flood

June 16, 2012

Theology

How does a Red Letter Christian read the Bible? From the name, you'd think it means that we focus on the red letters of Jesus. This is certainly true. But does that mean that we ignore the regular black lett...

"The land is mine" (the importance of Leviticus 25:23)

Morgan Guyton

April 16, 2012

General

As the debate rages within Christianity over what the Bible teaches about economic "fairness, " a key chapter to peruse is Leviticus 25, which introduces the concept of the year of the jubilee that Jesus procl...

The Gospel Shell Game

Morf Morford

April 15, 2012

General

Photo: FlickR/Still Burning Have you ever known anyone imprisoned by a cell of their own making? Perhaps we all do it to some degree, but some do it to the extent that their lives are an ever-shrinking, impl...

Offensive Jesus?

Michael Kimpan

April 12, 2012

General

Nobody's perfect. We all make mistakes. I've made plenty. I'll make plenty more. And in the future, when i err, I'd like to err on the side of grace. We've heard it said many times before by trendy autho...

The Easter Surprise: Celebrating the first day of a new kind of week

Kurt Willems

April 7, 2012

General

When you are small, the wonder of an Easter egg hunt is exiting. But as you grow older, the awe of the experience begins to fade. I remember a particular Easter when I had to make a choice: Would I listen t...

When a System Demands our Allegiance Away from Christ

Jeremy John

March 21, 2012

General

When I am faced with dishonesty and fraud on a systemic scale, I ask questions of God. But as I trace the origins of injustice, I am directed back towards humanity. The question becomes: what can we do to e...

The Healing Scent of Holiness

Morf Morford

January 4, 2012

General

In my city, any many others, there are occasional small clusters of earnest people outside Planned Parenthood offices. They hold garish signs of bloody fetuses and they sometimes chant or sing. Sometimes th...