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Understanding Teleios: The Journey to Wholeness in Creation
“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48) Perfect. Teleios (τέλειος): complete, fully mature, reaching toward the end goal, whole, journeying towards culmination. Teleios is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Omega Point, the goal of evolution, the result of God’s plan. Teleios does not imply that there’s no room for growth, or nothing left to learn. The Bible could…
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Embracing Mystery: Believing in a New Creation
Mystery. I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that all evil will eventually be eliminated. I believe there is coming a day when there will be no more war, no starving children, no migrants in concentration camps, no nationalism or idolatry, no militarism or exploitive capitalism, no greed, no income disparity, no police surveillance states, no death rows, and no prisons. I…
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What is the Purpose of Life?
Purpose When I was in high school, I had a thought-provoking, intellectually stimulating English teacher who asked us early in the year to write an essay on the meaning of life. That’s a tough assignment for a group of 17-year-old boys facing being drafted and sent to the jungles of southeast Asia. I struggled, wrote, struggled, and rewrote, and knew I was nowhere close to an answer. Judging by…
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What are Jesus’ Miracles All About?
Jesus did not work miracles simply for the sake of showing off divine power. Nor did he work miracles just to prove he was the Messiah. The fact that he did things only God could do (raise the dead, transform water into wine, walk on water, calm storms, know people’s unspoken thoughts) is important and impressive, but the primary reason Jesus worked miracles was to push back the forces of…
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God, Jesus, Israel, and the Church
Distorted by dispensationalism, nationalism, triumphalism, neo-Pentecostalism, fundamentalism, and prosperity teachings, the level of misunderstanding concerning God, Jesus, Israel, and the Church has reached epic levels in the United States. Ancient Israel The covenantal promises made by YHWH to Abraham and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob revealed to the world who and what the true…
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Who or what is God?
If God exists, what is God Like? The most basic question, I suppose, involves the existence of God. Assuming for a moment that the vast majority of humankind is correct and God does exist, the next fundamental and essential question would be, “What is God like?” Who or what is this person or thing we call God? Some answer: God is another name for the life force, the chi, that runs through…
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On Living With Grief as a Christian
First in a Three-Part Series My son Elliott took his own life at the age of (almost) 15. He did so on my 35th birthday. Forty years ago. He showed no signs of depression or mental illness. There were no drugs or alcohol in his system. He had a steady girlfriend and was a straight-A student on the varsity wrestling team. No one saw it coming. I was plunged into deep grief, shame, guilt,…
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How to Grieve Redemptively
Second of Three in a Series Rather than deny, disown, or distance ourselves from grief, we need to own it, to integrate it into our life-narrative, let it become a part of who we are. I am the father of five great children, the oldest of whom died in 1986. But, I must not simply own my sorrow; I must own it redemptively. How do I do that? I am owning my grief redemptively when I hold in…
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How to Help Grieving People
Last in a Three-Part Series First, allow me to share from experience what works and what doesn’t. Please don’t tell me Everything will be okay I have other children I need to be strong I need to have faith God works it out for good I’ll get over it I have to move on God needed another angel I’ll see him again in heaven It’s God’s will You understand (unless you’ve been through…
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Living With Grief
My son Elliott took his own life at the age of 15. He did so on my 35th birthday. He showed no signs of depression or mental illness. There were no drugs or alcohol in his system. No one saw it coming. I was plunged into deep grief, shame, guilt, self-blame, panic attacks, existential angst, and a clinical depression that required therapy and medication to break. In an effort to understand, I…
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