Teachings from the Christian Tradition

In Luke 10 Jesus sends out his second wave of emissaries to manifest his message. 72 of them. This missional dynamic is traditionally called the “apostolic life.” Today churches often orient around persuading others to become Christians, join the Church and grow their congregations. Yet not one of these themes is present in Jesus’ apostolic instructions. The Luke 10 Road-Trip reframes the very idea of “apostolic life” and explores how to imbue our relationships with Divine Love and follow the timeless principles Jesus’ laid out for his 72:

Part 1 – Fixing Attitudes, Multiplying Channels & Occupying Territory

Part 2 – Giving Away & Sharing the Journey

Part 3 – Finding and Recognizing People of Peace

Part 4 – Being Good Guests in the Lives of Others

Part 5 – Acts of Befriending – Churching or Discipling?

THE GENESIS OF US

Genesis contains some of the world’s oldest narratives. The presence in those texts of YHWH the Holy Name for God, not revealed until the time of Moses, clues us that we are not reading the earliest version of these narratives. Rather we are sitting at the feet of a narrator from after the time of Moses. Today there is a consensus among scholars that the final redactor did his work of harmonising the Hebrew canon during Israel’s captivity in Babylon in the C6thBCE, offering the world beautiful and important truths – most fundamentally that there is only one True God; one ultimate Source of all things; one Creator and Father of all. What can we draw from this top layer of story? How does it frame our understanding of God, Jesus and ourselves?

Scrolls, Stories & Creation – Genesis 1:1-3

All about How we Listen and How we Feel – Genesis 1:1-2:3

The Story of Us and what The Fall wasn’t – Genesis 2:15-3:24

Did Jesus have a sinful nature? And what The Fall wasn’t – Genesis 2:15-3:24

It’s about Soul Work and Keeping…Genesis 4:1-24

THE EDEN SERIES – Escaping from Eden, The Scars of Eden, Echoes of Eden, The Eden Conspiracy, The Invasion of Eden, and The Eden Enigma – examines the vestiges of the sources with which the C8th-6thBCE redactors worked to produce the Bible we all know. What was their story concerning who we are and where we all came from? Were they always stories about God? What history does the Bible hold regarding the metanarrative prior to the establishment of Judaic monotheism? The EDEN series drills down into these unfamiliar layers in a way that might just reframe your whole vision of Judaism, Christianity, GOD and the universe! Read more…

THINKING AGAIN

The Great Reformers established the importance of perpetually returning to the Scriptural sources of Christian faith and asking afresh, “Have we read this right?” From time to time our habitual patterns of thought and doctrine find themselves challenged by a refreshed reading of the Scriptures…

What Kind of Resurrection?

Faith: Fact of Fiction?

Did Jesus worship Yahweh?

Re-discovering the Kingdom of God…

De-Constructing Hell – Carlton Pearson “Come Sunday”

Beauty, Sex and Babies, and what Augustine got wrong…

Wisdom from My Kids

Worshipping with Weed?

Women’s Leadership & the Bible

God Loves People and Places

Did Jesus believe Yahweh was an ET?