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Chap 1. One.Life
Chap. 2: Kingdom.Life
Chap. 3: Imagined.Life
Chap. 4: Love.Life
Chap. 5: Justice.Life
Chap 6: Peace.Life
Chap. 7: Wisdom Life
Chap. 8: Church.Life
Chap. 9: Committed.Life
Chap. 10: Sex.Life
Chap. 11 Vocation.Life
Chap. 12: Eternity.Life
Chap. 13: God.Is.Love.Life
Chap. 14.: Cross.Life.Resurrection.Life
Final Words
Jesus Creed
Chap. 1
Chap. 2
Chap. 3
Chap. 4
Chap. 5-6
Part Two, Chap 7
Chap. 8-9
Chap. 10-11
Chap. 12
Part 3. Chap. 13-14
Chap. 15-16
Chap. 17-18
Part 4, Chap. 19-20
Chap. 21-22
Chap. 23-24
Part 5. Chap. 25-26
Chap. 27-28
Chap 29-30
7 I Ams of Jesus
Surprised by Joy
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV-V
Chapter VI
Chap.VIII
Chap. IX
Chap. X-XI
Chap. XII-XIII
Chap. XIV
Chap. XV
Four Loves
Part 1
Affection
Friendship
Eros
Charity
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
Chap. 1
Chap. 2—Top 10 Symptoms...
Chap. 3—The Radical Antidote
Part 2, Chap. 4 Know Yourself...
Chap. 5: Going Back in Order to Go Forward
Chap. 6: Journey Through the Wall
Chap. 7: Enlarge Your Soul Through Grief and Loss
Chap. 8: Discovering the Rhythms of the Daily Office and Sabbath
Chap 9: Grow into an Emotionally Health Adult
Chap. 10: Go the Next Step to Developing a “Rule of Life"
Reflections on the Psalms by C. S. Lewis
I: Introductory
II: “Judgment in the Psalms
III: The Cursings
IV: Death in the Psalms
Chap. V: The Fair Beauty of the Lord
Chap VI. Sweeter Than Honey.
Chap. VII: Connivance
Chap. VIII: Nature
Chap. IX: A Word About Praising
Chap. X: Second Meaings
Chap. XI: Scripture
Chap XII: Second Meaning in the Psalms
Letters to Malcom
Letters I & II
Letters III & IV
Letters V & VI
Letters VII & VIII
Letters IX-XI
Letters XII-XIV
Letters XV-XVII
Letters XVIII-X
Letters XXI-XXII
Too Small to Ignore
Foreword and Introduction
Introduction
Chap. 1
Chap. 2
Chap. 3
CHAP. 4
Chap. 5
Chap. 6
Chap. 7
Chap. 8
Chap. 9
Chap 10.
Chap. 11
Chap. 12
Chap. 13
Chap. 14
Chap. 15
Essential Eschatology
Wondrous Encounters: Scripture for Lent
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday, Lent Day 1
Lent day 2
Lent day 3
Lent Day 4
Lent Week 1
Lent, Sunday 1
Lent Day 5
Lent Day 6
Lent Day 7
Lent Day 8
Lent Day 9
Lent Day 10
Lent Week 2
Lent, Sunday 2
Lent Day 11
Lent Day 12
Lent Day 13
Lent Day 14
Lent Day 15
Lent Day 16
Lent Week 3
Third Sunday in Lent
Lent Day 17
Lent Day 18
Lent Day 19
Lent Day 20
Lent Day 21
Lent Day 22
Lent Week 4
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Lent Day 23
Lent Day 24
Lent Day 25
Lent Day 26
Lent Day 27
Lent Day 28
Lent Week 5
Fifth Sunday in Lent
Holy Week
Palm Sunday
Lent Day 35
Lent Day 36
Lent Day 37
Holy Thursday
Good Friday
Holy Saturday
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Meditations on Psalms
Prologue
Psalm 127
Psalm 62:1-8
Psalm 63
Psalm 85
Psalm 58
Losungen
Psalm 74
Psalm 119
Selections from Ethics
The Jesus Driven Life
Foreword
Chapter 1: The Christian Life
Chap. 2: How Jesus Read His Bible
Chap. 3: The Mission and Message of Jesus
Chap. 4: Constantinian Christianity
Chap 4, 4.1: Peacemaking ...
4.2. … Constantine and Augustine
4.3 Scripture ...
4.4 Interpreting the Bible
Chap. 5: Understanding Human Culture
5.1 What Does It Mean to Be Human?
5.2 Mimetic Realism ...
5.3 Culture ...
5.4. Two Ways to Read the Bible
Chapter 6: Interpreting the OT
6.1 Genesis 1011
6.2 Psalms and Job
6.3 Isaiah 53
6.4 Wisdom, Torah, Word
Chapter 7: Paul
7.1 Paul
Chapter 8: The Gospel of John
8.1 The Nonviolent Logos
8.2 The Life-Giving Imitation of the Son
8.3 The Spirit-Paraclete
8.4 The Beloved Community
Slow Church
Chap 2: Terrior
Christian Ethics
Part I Studying Ethics Through Worship
Chap. 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Part II Meeting God and One Another
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Part III: Re-Encountering the Story
Chap. 12
Chapter 13
Chap. 14
Chap 15.
Chap. 16
Chap. 17: Confessing the Faith...
Part IV: Being Embodied
Chap. 18
Chap. 19
Chap 20: Lauren Winner
Chap 21: Willie Jennings
Chapter 22: Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt
Chap 23: Health Care and Cloning
Chap 24: Becoming One Flesh
Chap 25: Sharing Peace
Chap 26: Sharing Peace ...
PART V: Re-Enacting the Story
Chap 27: Offering
Chap 28: Participating ...
Chap 29: Remembering ...
Chap 30: Invoking ...
Chap 31: Breaking ...
Chap 32: Receiving Communion ...
Chap 33 … Hunger ...
Chap 34: … Homosexuality
Chap 35: Being Silent ...
Chap 36: Footwashing
Part VI: Being Commissioned
Chap 37: Being Blessed
Chap 38: Bearing Fruit
Chap 39: Being Sent
Afterword
Chap 40: The Virtue of the Liturgy
Chap 41: Afterword
Pastorix
Pastorix
Chap 1-2
Chap 3-7
Chap 8-11
Chap 12-15
Chap 16-
be not afraid
Introduction
Part 1: be not afraid of death
Chap 1-2
Chap 3-5
Part 2: be not afraid of weakness
Chap 6-8
Chap 9-10
Part 3: be not afraid of power
Chap 11-12
Chap 13-14
Chap 15
Part 4: be not afraid of difference
Chap 16
Chap 17-18
Chap 19-21
Part 5: be not afraid of faith.
Chap 22
Chap 23
Part 6: be not afraid of life
Art … Commonplace
Part I: A Geobiography
Intro
A Native Hill
Part II: … Cultural Crisis
Unsettling ...
Racism and the Economy
Feminism ...
Think Little
Part III: Agrarian Basis for … Culture
Body and Earth
… Common Ground
Health ...
Sex, Economy, ...
People, Land, and Community
Conservation and Local Economy
Part IV: Agrarian Economics
Economy and Pleasure
Two Economies
The Whole Horse
… Local Economy
Bad Big Idea
Solving for Pattern
Solving … Pattern
Agarian Religion
The Use of Energy
The Gift of Good Land
Christianity and ...
Pleasures of Eating
A Fellowship of Differents
1: Growin Up in the Church
2: A Salad Bowl
Part 1: Grace
Grace: Space for Yes
Space for Grace
Part 2: Love
Love … Prepositions
Love Works
Love Shares
Part 3: Table
Tomatoes versus Maters
The Table ...
WE is Bigger ...
Part 4: Holiness
Holiness as Devotion
Part 5: Newness
A New Freedom
A New Faithfulness
A New Guidance
A New Politics
Part 6: Flourishing
We Have Landed ...
Wearing God
The God Who Runs ...
… Gender and Language for God
Clothing
Smell
Bread and Vine
Laboring Woman
Laughter
Flame
Poverty of Expression
Saving the Bible ...
Embarking
Our Complicated Bible
Unveiling the Elegant Bible
Our Snacking Bible
Savoring the Feasting Bible
Our “Gods Must Be Crazy” Bible
… Historical Bible
Our De-Dramatized Bible
Rediscovering the Storiented Bible
Performing the Storiented Bible
Our Otherworldly Bible
Grounded in the Earthly Bible
My Private Bible
Sharing our Synagogue Bible
Our Ugly Bible
Beholding the Iconic Bible
Return
The Great Theologians
Why Study Theology
Origen
Athanasius
Augustine
Thomas Aquinas
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Jonathan Edwards
Friedrich Schleiermacher
John Henry Newman
Karl Barth
Hans Urs von Balthasar
What These Theologians Teach Us about Theology
Help Thanks Wow
Prayer 101
Help
Thanks
Wow
Amen
Man’s Search for Meaning
Foreword & Preface
A Community Called Atonement
What Is the Bible?
Introduction
Part 1
Moses and His Moisture
Somebody Wrote Something Down
Stoners and Swingers
Who Paid Jesus’s Bills?
Anakephalaiossathai
The Importance of Altitude
Smoking Fire Pots
And the Fat Closed In Over the Sword
The Thing About Pearls and Pigs
Turning the Gem
Larry in the Airport
Part 2
Flood
Fish
Son
All That Violence
Do What to Our Whats?
Give It Up for Sidon!
He Can’t Even Say His Name
The Whole Melchizedek Thing ...
So How Did Jesus Read the Bible?
The Sheeeeeeeet Factor
He Had No Idea What I Was Talking About
All Things Are Yours
The Human and the Divine
Part 3
Babel
Two or Three Kinds of Apocalypses
The Book of Revelation of Course
Why Americans ...
Part 4
Why Are There All Those Genealogies?
Why Is Leviticus in the Bible?
What About All Those People Falling Over Dead?
Did Jesus Have to Die?
What About Predestination
What About All That Wrath?
What About Sin?
Is It the Word of God?
Is It Authoritative?
What about the Contradictions
Is It Inerrant?
Is It Inspired?
What’s the Best Question ...
What’s the Worst Question ...
What’s the Other Best Question ...
Improvisation
Introduction
Part One: Plowing
Ethics as Theology
Theology as Narrative
Narrative as Drama
Drama as Improvisation
Part 2: Planting
Forming Habits
Assessing Status
Accepting and Blocking
Questioning Givens
Incorporating Gifts
Reincorporating the Lost
Part 3: Reaping
Human Evil
Flawed Creation
Perfectible Bodies
Unlimited Food
Epilogue
Open to the Spirit
First Words
Open and Shut
Jesus Was Wide Open to the God’s Spirit
Open to the God Who Speaks
THE LIVING WORD
The Written Word
The Prophetic Word
Spirit Intercedes for Us.
Open to the New Creation of the Spirit
Spirit as a New presence
New Day of the Spirit
A New Baptism
… New Self
… A New Power
… People of the Spirit
… a New People
… A New Kind of Leader
… A New Orientation in Life
… a Life of Love
Open to the Virtues of the Spirit
… A New Assurance
… A New Freedom
… A New Holiness
Living in What is Good while ...
Open to the Victory of the Spirit
… New Victory Over Sin
… Victory in Communication
… Over Sickness and Death
… The Powers That War against God
Wide Open to the Spirit...
Doing Theology for the Church
Preface
Jesus Laments
Film as Parable
The Wheat and the Weeds
Faith Working through Love
Ancient Mentors
Adoption in Paul’s Letters
The Lost World of Genesis One
Introduction
Genesis 1 is Ancient Cosmology
Ancient Cosmology Is Function Oriented
“Create” (Hebrew bara) Concerns Functions
Beginning State in Genesis 1 is Nonfunctional
Days 1 to 3 in Genesis 1 Establish Functions
Days 4-6 in Genesis 1 Install Functionaries
Face-Value Exegesis
Too Far, or Not Far Enough
… Metaphysical in Nature
God’s Roles as Creator and Sustainer
… Intelligent Design Ultimately Concerns Purpose
Scientific Explanations of Origins ...
Resulting Theology Stronger ...
Education Should Be Neutral About Purpose
Conclusions
Paul: Fresh Perspective
Preface
Themes
Rethinking God
Reworking God’s People
Reimagining God’s Future
Jesus, Paul, and the Task of the Church
Christian Ethics
Introduction
Part One
The Story of God
The Story of the Church
The Story of Ethics
The Story of Christian Ethics
Part Two
Universal Ethics
Subversive Ethics
Ecclesial Ethics
Part Three
Good Order
Good Life
Good Relationships
Good Beginning and Endings
Good Earth
Echoes
Introduction
The Gospel of Mark
The Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of Luke
The Gospel of John
Conclusion
Divine Conspiracy
Introduction
Entering the Eternal Kind of Live Now
Gospels of Sin Management
What Jesus Knew
The Beatitudes
… Kingdom Heart
Investing ...
… Prayerful Love
BEING A DISCIPLE OF JESUS
… Christlikeness
Restoration of All Things
Separated Siblings
Foreword/Preface
Introducing Judaism
God of Abraham
God of Moses
God of the Commandments
Israel
God of Prayer
God of Righteousness
Exile and Restoration
Jesus the Jew
Paul the Jew
The Rabbis
The Age of Genius
Jews in Early Modernity
Emancipation, Reform, and Danger
Rise of Zionism
Dialogue and Hope
Practicing Lament
Tearing Heaven Open
Jesus Wept
Your Kingdom Come
Penitence and Protest
LORD, TEACH US HOW TO MOURN
The Beatitudes through the Ages
Introduction
Meet the Beatitudes
Tangled Skein of Our Lives
Drained of All Other Waters
By Trials Furrowed
Yield Your Ground
Our Daily Bread
The Merciful
Pure in Heart
The Peacemakers
The Persecuted
Conclusion
Ramblings
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