April 26, 2023
Texts: Acts 6:7; 4:23-31; 12:24; Revelation 5:9-13 Days 65-67 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days. When God created the cosmos, God invested in humanity a particular vocation: fill the earth, subdue the chaos, and shepherd (rule) the creation (Genesis 1:28). As participants in the new creation, the people of God extend this human vocation […]
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Theodrama | Tagged: Creation, Discipleship, Discipling, Ecology, Great Commission, Growth, Mission, New Creation, Powers, Subduing the Powers |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 27, 2012
With Tennessee now a Confederate state and at war with the Union, Fanning published an article entitled “Taking up the Cross,” in the August issue of the Gospel Advocate 7.8 (1861), 244-245. What did it mean to “take up the cross” in August 1861 for Tennesseans, Confederates or Unionists? On the one hand, it meant abandoning […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Civil War, Cross, Discipleship, Peace, Tolbert Fanning, War |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 5, 2012
While many have treated this section of Mark as a series of isolated sayings that follow a passion prediction, the thread that runs through it carries a powerful punch if we hear it as one continuous exchange between Jesus and his disciples. This thread directly connects with the prediction. Just as Jesus would serve others by suffering, […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Bible-Gospel of Mark, Discipleship, Exclusivism, Hell, Kingdom of God, Mark 9:33-50, Peace, Pride |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks