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If the earth had a ring like Saturn… The best ice cream parlors in the world– where there’s Blue Bell in Texas and don’t forget the piazza parlor in San Gimignano. Mal Green on preserving one’s reputation: “The seemingly relentless litany in recent church history of high-profile and no-profile Christian religious leaders being caught in [...]
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The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible
— 5 editions |
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The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited
— published 2011 — 4 editions |
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Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others
— published 2004 — 5 editions |
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A Community Called Atonement
— published 2007 — 4 editions |
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One Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow
— published 2010 — 3 editions |
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Junia Is Not Alone
— published 2011 |
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Fasting: The Ancient Practices
by Scot McKnight, Phyllis A. Tickle — published 2009 — 4 editions |
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Praying with the Church: Following Jesus Daily, Hourly, Today
— published 2006 |
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Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us
— published 2005 — 3 editions |
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The Real Mary: Why Evangelical Christians Can Embrace the Mother of Jesus
— published 2006 — 3 editions |
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“Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it.”
― Scot McKnight, One Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow
― Scot McKnight, One Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow
“Why do so many today want to wander off to South Africa or Kenya or India or Russia or Honduras or Costa Rica or Peru to help with justice issues but not spend the same effort in their own neighborhood or community or state? Why do young suburbanites, say in Chicago, want to go to Kentucky or Tennessee to help people but not want to spend that same time to go to the inner city in their own area to help with justice issues? I asked this question to a mature student in my office one day, and he thought he had a partial explanation: 'Because my generation is searching for experiences, and the more exotic and extreme the better. Going down the street to help at a food shelter is good and it is just and some of us are doing that, but it's not an experience. We want experiences.”
― Scot McKnight
― Scot McKnight
“We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.”
― Scot McKnight, One Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow
― Scot McKnight, One Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow
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| Every one's Choice: Aly's Book Challenge!!!! | 214 | 96 | Dec 23, 2010 09:04pm | |
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