Entries from April 2007

The Good, The Bad, and the Something

Date April 30, 2007

The Good: I am done with div school in 2 weeksThe Bad: The Heat are not in the NBA playoffs any moreThe Something: I preached today at New community and you can hear it.

Project Presentation

Date April 18, 2007

PostProtoTheoEpistemic ProjectilicitinessOr, The things you will never talk to your congregation about unless you care about Jesus really mattering in the World
Senior Projects:Tripp Fuller“Becoming Jesus’ Church in the Post-Colonial World: Reframing the Mission and Power of God”
Corbin Boekhaus“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End”: Creation and Eschatology in Dialogue with [...]

Pannenberg on the Church and the Kingdom

Date April 12, 2007

Christ points the Church toward the Kingdom of God that is beyond the Church. To the degree that the Church follows his pointing and heeds his reminder, the Kingdom of God will manifest itself through the Church. But note that this is quite different from attributing to the Church in its established structures [...]

Pannenberg on ‘The Beloved"

Date April 12, 2007

“True love nurtures wholeness, granting to the beloved the authenticity and independence of his existence. Creative love does not ask the beloved for his dependency but for his personhood…the eyes of love perceive yet unrealized possibilities…Love, on the one hand, envisions in the beloved the destiny of his life and the promise of life’s [...]

Church Identity in a Post-Colonial World: Mark 1:1

Date April 10, 2007

What does a post-colonial theology of the church look like? A Big and important question, but here is one place to start. The first verse of the first (oldest) gospel about JC.
The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God Mark 1:1
This passage [...]

Emerging Fear and the SBC

Date April 4, 2007

How do you draw more attention to the emerging movement? Like This. If you say blanket statements like the emerging church is “one of the most dangerous and deceptive movements to infiltrate the ranks of Southern Baptist life,” you could think that might be an overstatement of fearful dread over the unknown, but [...]

Tripp went Rev

Date April 2, 2007

Here are some pictures from my rev-making service. Dr. Tupper preached, my Pops did the charge, and tons of friends and family came. It was a super time and service.