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From Ray Ortland’s blog, by way of 9 Marks.
Whatever divides us emotionally from other Bible-believing, Christ-honoring Christians is a “plus” we’re adding to the gospel. It is the Galatian impulse of self-exaltation. It can even become a club with which we bash other Christians, at least in our thoughts, to punish, to exclude and to […]

UPDATE: The new post at JSS is “God is Jesus.”
I have started blogging at Jesus Shaped Spirituality or JesusShaped.wordpress.com. The actual domain JesusShaped.com won’t be up for a while, so this is my temporary home.
If you are an IM reader, PLEASE help me make this transition.
Tell others. Update your RSS feed. Stop by both sites […]

I was sitting in a middle school classroom today and noticed a poster on the wall. It said, in a highly decorative way, “Integrity: Hold On To Your Beliefs!”
Public and private schools are full of this sort of thing these days. There are catalogs of this kind of rhetoric for schools, touting various values like […]

Two questions that are crucial to anyone studying and teaching scripture in a Jesus-shaped, Jesus centered way:
What would I have thought if I were there when Jesus taught, did miracles, engaged in conversations, meals, etc.?
What do the same events and words mean now that I have the entire Bible to bring all of scripture to […]

Who is the most Christlike person you know?
I live and work in a Christian community with approximately 150 other staff members who serve in our ministry. We live close together and see each other almost every day. Even with occasional breaks and vacations, we still spend far more time together than the Christians in the […]

Mark 3:20 Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. 21 And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.”….Mark 3:31 And his mother and his brothers came, and standing […]

Expect to see a lot of posts in this category.
(ESV) Philippians 3:7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things […]

Jesus Shaped Spirituality 1.
May 4, 2008. (An audience of high schoolers from all over the world, many not Christians.)

 

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