Tag: Acts 1

Best of It: The Story and the Mission (Part 2)

May 28, 2009

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mwkruse

in Series: Making the Best of It, Theology

[Series Index] We continue our discussion from Chapter 6 in John Stackhouse's Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World. One of Stackhouse's big concerns (which I share) is the privileging of one portion of the Bible over another. All of Scripture must be held in the context of the rest of…
Theology and Economics: The New (Jeru)shalom

Mar 1, 2006

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mwkruse

in Eschatology, Jubilee, Series: Theology and Economics, Theology

When Jesus arrived on the scene, the Jews were looking for a messiah to gather all the Jews to Israel, overthrow the oppressors, and restore shalom. Exactly how this would happen and when was a much-contested issue. Still, these three elements were prominent within most Jewish eschatology. The gospel of Luke takes the story of…