Disciples Fellowship

Tag: Gospel

  • Our Shifting Anxieties

    In The Courage to Be, Paul Tillich offers his overview of three ages of Western thought and the cultural shifts these eras produced. His purpose is to explore the nature of Christian faith in each time, and so he identifies the nature of the fundamental human fears during those periods. Antiquity, he claims, was characterized…

  • Cross of Love

    But we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness. 1 Corinthians 1:23 Paul’s statement about the difficulties people have in accepting the message of a crucified Lord is a lament, not a call to action. If the cross is problematic to understand, may it be so for the right reasons…

  • Violence and the Jesus Way

    Those who lack the incomparable energy of love and the strength of moral clarity, who neither pursue nor value virtue, who do not hold to the inherent and sacred dignity of all people, use violence as a tool for their own ambitions. Theirs is an intentional choice to further pursue and consolidate the power they…

  • Awakening to the Good

    All the synoptic gospels narrate the encounter between Jesus and the rich young ruler. At the outset of their conversation, as recorded in Luke 18:18 and Mark 10:17, the man addresses Jesus as “good teacher.” In response, Jesus questions him, “Why do you call me good?” Jesus then declares that there is no one good…

  • Healing and Harm

    The corruption of the best things are the worst things. Socrates Philosophers and theologians from antiquity have recognized the profound connection between virtue and vice, or, to put it differently, the inherent value of things and the potential for their misuse. The greater the energy or possibility for good something possesses, the more it can…

  • Jesus Wants Us To Die

    But He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!” Exodus 33:20 This is God’s reply to Moses on Mount Sinai when he asks God to show him his glory. Evidently, to actually see God would be an experience so overwhelming that one would not survive. The belief is…