Author: Adam Lee Benner
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The Kingdom Series: Good News!
Maybe we ought to rethink the ‘gospel’ we’re spreading – if for no other reason, because it doesn’t resemble the real good news that Jesus announced.
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The Kingdom Series: …Or Not Going to Hell
We shouldn’t reduce the Kingdom of God to a safe haven from the fires of hell. It’s so much bigger.
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The Kingdom Series: It’s Not About Going to Heaven…
Cracking open some cold ones by the Olympic-size pool at your heavenly mansion? Amen and amen! But we should be more invested in seeing heaven come to earth.
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The Kingdom Series: A Cosmic Joke
When they crucified Jesus, the powers-that-be thought they’d seen off one more would-be Messiah. Instead they got punked by God’s unconventional game plan.
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The Kingdom Series: A Kingdom-Shaped Hole
The Kingdom of God is the key focus of scripture and the message of Jesus. That’s why I’ll be writing exclusively about the Kingdom for the next year. This is the first in that series: What do we lose when we lose the Kingdom?
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Why do We Fear Death?
We don’t like to think or talk about death. We fear the unknown. But there is one who has gone ahead of us.
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Floods of Judgement?
Some see natural disasters as signs of God’s judgement. But that’s misunderstanding the God revealed in Jesus.
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Civil War?
Yeah, maybe Jim Bakker has completely lost the plot. Christians aren’t going to start a civil war. We’re already in a war – just not the one the Christian right thinks we’re in.
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Leading the Blind?
Believing that President Trump is ‘God’s anointed’ makes us blind. And the worst part is, we’re unaware that we can’t see.
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Is President Trump REALLY Changing Christianity?
In an article in the Washington Post, John Fea considers how much the new president is changing the face of Christianity in the United States. But I wonder if it hadn’t changed already.