Every Palm Sunday the wider church celebrates Jesus, the political revolutionary, who was hailed the rightful King of Israel by a... children's choir. From its inception the Jesus Movement began to weild social influence from a position of political powerlessness. There was nothing more revolutionary in the ancient world than for Paul to assert that there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. It's this impulse that led the preacher John Chrysostom to become one of the first abolitionists in history. It led Wesley to reform industrial England, and Campbell to attack divisive clergy in America. We, thus, are part of a long prophetic tradition where learning serves to remake the world in Christ's image. May God use these resources to facilitate the church's ongoing conversation about what it means to discern the will of God and to be Jesus in our culture.
Papers
Address at Stone-Campbell Dialogue October 6, 2013
- Non-Sunday School Churches of Christ: Their Origins and Transformation
- Jeffersonian Evangelical: Christian Liberty in the Life and Letters of Barton Stone
- The Importance of Trinitarian Reflection in the Thought of Alexander Campbell
- We Were Both Right: Lenten Sermon Offered at Speedway Christian Church DOC
- Discerning the Word: Lecture Offered at McKinnley HIll Conference on Hermeneutics
- Reading from the Center, Listening with Faith: Conference on Spiritual Formation
- Scandalous Particularity:Theological Reflection and the Future of "Our" Churches
- Critique of Gwen Shamblin: A Case Study for Why Trinitarian Theology Matters
- Hermeneutics in the Life of David Bobo
- Spiritual And Religious: Dedication Ceremony at the Alton Project June 30 2013
Current Sermon Series
- Eucharist
- All-time Feast
- Inheriting Purity
- Eat this Flesh
- Promises, Promises
- Isaiah 1
- Isaiah 2
Corporate Devotional Life
- Handbook
- Psalm Book
Books Available Through
- Ketch Publishing
Spiritual Formation:
- The Future of Stone-Campbell Churches