John Mark Hicks

An English version is available here. El Verbo, el Hijo, se hizo carne y vivió una auténtica vida humana como imagen de Dios. La cristología es la esencia del cristianismo, ya que la fe cristiana cree que Dios está en Cristo restaurando el mundo a la comunión con el Dios de la Trinidad. El cristianismo […]

How should we walk? And how can we walk? (Ephesians 4:17-24) Disciples of Jesus, those who learned about the Messiah, are to walk worthy of their calling (Ephesians 4:1). These first generation Gentile believers are called to no longer walk as they used to walk as people alienated from God, but to walk in the […]

(An English version is available here.) Dios se asocia con la humanidad como representantes divinos dentro de una creación llena de shalom, pero la humanidad –y con ella la creación– se degenera a través de una serie de crisis. Creada y coronada de gloria y honor como criaturas reales dentro de la creación, la humanidad […]

Days 5-8 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days Text: Genesis 1:26-28 Who are we as human beings? What is our identity, and what is our responsibility and function on this earth? The long history of spirituality, which is evident in today’s Western culture, has included a search for the authentic self. It seems we […]

Every temple needs an image. The creation, which is God’s cosmic temple, is no different. At the climactic moment of creation God placed an image in that temple. Humanity is the image of God. This is our fundamental identity as human beings. But what does that mean? At one level, it involves our embodied existence. […]

God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” Genesis 1:28 The Lord God took the adam and rested […]

This week I am participating in a wonderful conference on preaching the paradigmatic texts of Scripture. The focus of this particular conference is creation.  Walter Brueggemann is the featured speaker and his presentation last night on Psalm 104 was excellent. Other speakers include Ken Durham, John York, David Fleer and Rhonda Lowry. Everyone has done […]

During the Fall semester at Lipscomb University, I teach a class entitled “Nursing as Kingdom Vocation.” There I intend to cast a vision for those pursuing nursing as a career that their chosen path is a ministry in the kingdom of God. As nurses, they will participate in the mission of God (missio Dei) as […]

What is salvation? In my first post in this series I proposed the below chart as a way of answering that important question. In this post I will comment on the third sector (3).    Past Justification Present Sanctification Future Glorification Personal Forgiveness of Sins and Relationship with God (1) Moral (Inner and Outer)  Transformation (2) […]

[Note: I am attempting to keep these SBD installments under 2000 words each, but that is–of course–quite inadequate for the topics covered. Consequently, these contributions are more programmatic than they are explanatory or defenses of the positions stated. You may access the whole series at my Serial page.] The Word, the Son, became flesh and lived […]