As we have now reached the end of the excellent caffe theology book, we looked around for another source of brain and discussion fodder and have come up with “Adventures in missing the point, how the culture controlled-church neutered the gospel” by Brian McLaren and Tony Campolo. We’ll be discussing this today in church.
I don’t […]
According to Michael Lloyd, he who probably dwells in the urban centre of Oxfordshire, and to whom is due a degree of thanks for enlightening our ponderings over the last few weeks, ‘there is a corporate as well as a personal dimension to belonging to Christ.’
As we learnt in a previous chapter, we are redeemed as […]
The world began not in chaos but in the creative purposes of God. It’s conclusion will also not be in chaos but in the fullfillment and accomplishment of those same purposes. I think I may have given away my copy of “the story we find ourselves in” by Brian McLaren but I remember a bit there […]
This week we are talking about the Holy Spirit/Holy Ghost. It kind of helped that the Holy Spirit was the topic of Jo Trott’s talk this morning at church (I bothered to go), and she really gave me food for thought, so I’ll plagiarise some of it for you now. She was looking at John […]
We’ve spent a couple of weeks thinking about the subject of atonement and what the death of Jesus was for and how it affects us today. It is good to dwell on the momentousness of what Jesus endured or we are in danger of missing out of the full meaning of the Cross. The […]
Last week we discussed God becoming man. What did it mean for Jesus to be fully human? Did he fight with his brothers? When did he become conscious that he was God? We talked about Jesus being humble, living a fully human life yet failing to take on the characteristics associated with powerful people. If God became […]
Last week we talked about how God is intimately involved in the world that He created. This week we get to the heart of how that became a reality in the next chapter of the Story, the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
Topic of the week: Incarnation
All of history, everything that has happened from the […]
We’ll have a chance to go a bit deeper with much of the discussion from last week as we continue to think about whether God is still involved in His world and in our lives.
Topic of the week…Providence
God didn’t lose interest in His creation once He’d created it. Nor did He abandon it to its own […]
I just wanted to draw your attention to the superb review Alex has written of Cafe Theology, the book we have borrowed from in our current discussion series. Thanks Alex - great work. If you want to read more deeply into our discussion topics, it is an excellent resourse. You can buy a copy of […]
Its been a busy week so apologies for not writing this until today. The plan is to write it earlier so you have a chance to think about it before the meeting. We had a good discussion about creation last week - thanks to everyone for their thoughts and comments on the blog. Caroline had […]