October 11, 2022
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 […]
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Biblical Texts, Theodrama, Theology | Tagged: Creation, Ecology, Fill the Earth, Genesis 1:26-28, Identity, Image of God, Rule the Earth, Subdue the Earth, Vocation |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 27, 2017
The Ray Evans Seminar, an annual event at the Alameda Church of Christ in Norman, Oklahoma, was held March 31-April 2, 2017. The general topic was Embracing Creation, which is also the title of the book I co-authored with Bobby Valentine and Mark Wilson. The book is available here. I gave six presentations as well […]
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Uncategorized | Tagged: Anthropology, Assembly, Baptism, Christology, Creation, Ecology, Eschatology, God, Humanity, Inheritance, Lord's Supper, New Heaven and New Earth, Sacraments, Vocation |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
October 28, 2015
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 […]
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Theology | Tagged: Creation, Earth, Ecology, Environment, Genesis 1, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 2:15, Humanity, Image of God, Mission, Subdue, Vocation |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 29, 2010
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 […]
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Theology | Tagged: Calling, Creation, Image of God, Imago Dei, Kingdom of God, Missio Dei, Mission, Missional, Sacred, Secular, Vocation |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 13, 2009
[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.] God partners with humanity as divine representatives […]
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Theology | Tagged: Anthropology, Bible-Genesis, Creation, Humanity, Identity, Image of God, Missio Dei, Mission, Missional, Original Sin, Sin, Sinful Nature, Vocation |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks