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May 2012

May 09, 2012

From Genesis 3 to Romans 3

I have come across, or been sent, a number of published (book or internet) items...

May 08, 2012

Half the Sky and the Power of Story (RJS)

I expect this post to be one of my least well-read posts of the year....

May 07, 2012

N.T. Wright and those Pesky Creeds

Tom Wright doesn't back down from this claim: those who read the Gospels by way...

May 03, 2012

The Gospel from the Air

Matt Chandler, in his new book, The Explicit Gospel, makes a case for two dimensions of...

May 01, 2012

Abraham and Israel for Normal People (RJS)

Peter Enns and Jared Byas have a new e-book Genesis for Normal People designed to...

May 01, 2012

The Gospel of God’s Glory

There's a cottage industry of books about the gospel, and Matt Chandler's book, The Explicit Gospel,...

April 2012

April 19, 2012

Gospels as Foundation Documents for Church

Three approaches to the Gospels blunt their force, and it is hard to escape all...

April 17, 2012

Jesus as God — but which God?

One of the career-long projects of N.T (Tom) Wright has been the "question of God,"...

April 13, 2012

The Back Story to the Jesus Story

If you take any historical book of the Old Testament, say Genesis or 1 Samuel...

April 11, 2012

Tom Wright on How (not) to Read the Gospels

Tom Wright's new book, How God Became King, complains that too many Christians have developed...

April 09, 2012

The Gospel of the Gospel Coalition 2

Last week I interacted with Bryan Chapell's exposition of the gospel in the officially produced...

April 05, 2012

The Gospel of the Gospel Coalition

The Gospel Coalition is an association of pastors and theologians around fidelity to the gospel...

April 04, 2012

The Great Gulf from Canon to Creed

I was reading a review of Tom Wright's new book, How God Became King, at...

April 02, 2012

The Gospel of Acceptance

The gospel can be viewed from a variety of angles, and undoubtedly the most widely...

March 2012

March 17, 2012

Rhetorical Leverage Removed

One of the points I have made in my King Jesus Gospel book is that...

March 08, 2012

King Jesus Gospel: What about justification?

I got this letter from a reader the other day. After the letter I offer...

March 08, 2012

Why Cross and Resurrection? (RJS)

As we move through Lent and approach Easter it has become commonplace to have questions ...

February 2012

February 24, 2012

Brethren in Christ

Last weekend I was in Elizabethtown PA (E-town to locals), in the heart of God's...

February 20, 2012

Ed Stetzer Interview on King Jesus Gospel

Ed Stetzer opened his blog last Wednesday for an interview he conducted with me about...

February 14, 2012

Library Help

I'm searching for some information. I'm wondering if anyone can locate the 1953 and (also)...

February 08, 2012

New Creation Gospel

I have said this before, but I want to repeat it: the soterian gospel resolves...

February 01, 2012

The Soterian Gospel as Selfish

The soterian gospel smacks too often of the very thing it seeks to fight: that...

January 2012

January 13, 2012

Pure Soterian Gospel

Martin Luther, as summarized and quoted by Jaroslav Pelikan, in Divine Rhetoric (pp. 90), from...

January 05, 2012

Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church 1

If Jesus was prophetic (and he was) then the church that follows him is prophetic...

December 2011

December 22, 2011

The Message of Christmas

This post is by Matt Ritchie, who collects some lines in Christmas songs that declare...

December 19, 2011

Justin Holcomb and the Soterian Gospel

Justin Holcomb, at Mars Hill (Seattle), recently posted on What is the gospel? and he...

November 2011

November 25, 2011

A Soterian Gospel Test

Some folks have reshaped the Bible and the gospel so that it is driven by...

November 21, 2011

Is the Sermon on the Mount gospel?

One sort will look at my question and say, "No way!" This sort thinks the...

November 18, 2011

Creed as Gospel, Gospel as Creed

It is worth repeating: in much of Christian culture the word "gospel" and the word...

November 14, 2011

The Gospel and Fantasy Christians

Stan Friedman interviewed me about The King Jesus Gospel, and I'm clipping one part. You...