At Edge, Jos talked about grace. In a nutshell grace is freedom; freedom from a live tied to the Law which cannot be fulfilled by us, freedom from the burden of sin, and freedom to explore life and explore faith without having to worry about the unknown because the Grace of God goes before us and allows us to find… Read more →
“What is Forgiveness?” Follow Up
Last night I asserted that Biblical forgiveness is drastically different to how the world sees and understands forgiveness. The world sees and understands forgiveness as something that only empowers the self: If someone has hurt me, it is taught, that forgiveness is important, even imperative, if I ever want to move on. So for me to forgive whoever hurt me… Read more →
“What is Wisdom?” Follow up
Building off of what Courtney shared with us on what wisdom is from a biblical perspective, I wanted to share with you a short devotional reflection on the difference between wisdom and knowledge. Courtney pulled from King Solomon and the book of Proverbs, using the verse “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom, and knowledge… Read more →
“What is Hope?” Follow up
A few weeks ago Hayley spoke on “what is hope?” She touched on Abraham and Sarah’s story about God’s promise to give them a child, even at a ridiculously old age, and that hope – Biblical Hope – is more than just wishing for something good to happen. It’s trusting in God’s word. There’s a difference between placing our… Read more →
“What is Worship” follow up
We started this series, “What is…?” a few weeks ago and we started off by looking at ‘what is worship?’ We took away the “worship team” so there was no music and we examined what true worship means. True worship is a live dedicated to serving God in humble reverence of who God is. That means that worshiping God… Read more →
AFL Blog Last days of Lent: Certainty and Doubt
Hey guys, just wanted to share with you more of a statement to ponder. Maybe you’ll agree with it, maybe you wont. Perhaps you will in part. I’m just going to throw it out there for the sake of discussion and wonderment. I have gathered this from some recent AFL sessions and have boiled it down to this, followed by… Read more →
AFL Blog Last Days of Lent: Introducing Padraig O Tauma
Padraig O Tauma is an Irish poet and theologian. I’ve only just come across him through AFL and I’m captivated by his work so far, so I thought instead of trying to break down and blog about a song he wrote that Peter Rollins used for today’s content (below is a link to a youtube video. It’s super good, with… Read more →
AFL Blog – Final days of Lent: Loss, defeat, and suffering
Rollins talks about Seneca and his critique on the traditional notion of God. Seneca basically says that a child is better than God (in the traditional sense of the Religious notion of God). He says that because God can’t lose, or be defeated, or suffer, God actually lacks in a way. This is the critique: A child falls and gets… Read more →
AFL Blog Week 6 part 4 (Thursday): What Do I Love When I love God?
The reading for Thursday, 22 March I found very pleasing to read. It comes from a notable post-modern theologian and philosopher, John Caputo, and his book On Religion. The excerpt is titled “Religion is for Lovers.” There’s not much really for me to review or critique in this excerpt. Just a few nice quotes I’ll share with you. The aim of… Read more →
AFL Blog Week 6 Part 3 (Wed): C.S. Lewis and Light
So, most of you will know who C.S. Lewis is. He’s an author and theologian and one of the greatest Christian devotional writers of 20th century. Rollins takes one of Lewis’ later in life writings – it is actually his first and only short story, which didn’t get published until 20 years after his death – a short story called Light.… Read more →