Science and Faith: An In-Depth Look
The Bible is not trying to be a scientific textbook, and we shouldn’t make it one.
The Bible is not trying to be a scientific textbook, and we shouldn’t make it one.
Being in the presence of Jesus activated spiritual dynamics that the disciples present didn’t even identify as such until Jesus vanished and they began to connect the dots.
As people of the kingdom can be a people of constant expectation.
Not only do we walk with a great hope for what is to come, but also a wonder that the glories to come are being sown in our present life now.
Listen in as Putty talks about the intersection between quantum physics and the supernatural.
What you nay have missed in the healing story from the pool of Bethesda.
In this glimpse of heaven, we see that the activity of heaven itself revolves around praise of the Lord for His majesty and His victory.
Listen in on Putty’s message as he talks about leadership in times of turbulent change.
A fire needs some boundaries (test everything), but it also needs some room (don’t quench the Spirit).
The kingship of Jesus is not partial now and increasing as time goes on, the kingship of Jesus is total and completed already.
As God’s inbreaking kingdom approaches our world, the way the powers of this world respond is through these signals.
When the time-complicated God acts, that action works through into our experience of time and history in a complex and paradoxical way.
When technology begins to create its own world that replaces some aspect of the created order, we have problems.
I speak with many preachers who unfortunately haven’t cultivated preaching as a form of Holy Spirit ministry.
If there are all kinds of different scales of temples (individuals, partnerships, small groups, large groups, and so on), then we probably ought to be looking for the Holy Spirit to fill up every scale of temple.
I might even go so far as to say that the presence indwelling the family is probably the single most important aspect of being a church.
All of this suggests that the way the spirit realm indwells the human order is a nested reality.
What if the Church in the US needs to stop trying to feel safe and needs to start feeling radical?
God is a reality that goes beyond the natural order and can reach into the natural order and in that intersection break the boundaries of natural laws and introduce new realities.
It seems to me that this is not a moment where leadership based on doing is wise: rather this is the moment where leadership based on being serves us far better.
Thanks to an appropriate value for context, we can go deeper than Luther or Calvin, Wesley, or Moody were able to go.
We need to learn how to understand data if we want to use it well.
Growth in skill development nearly always happens through feedback loops.
We have to learn what it means to be a Christian where that means being countercultural.