Coffee Culture Kingdom Vox 2008-07-18T18:14:20Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4141b72246a47/tags/grace/ Meditations on Jesus and our World Luther's Gospel tag:vox.com,2008-07-18:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700fa96894a620003 2008-07-18T18:14:20Z 2008-07-18T18:14:20Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Luther

Most Christians don't understand the significance of Luther's understanding of God's grace: In the righteousness of faith, we work nothing, we render nothing to God, but we only receive and allow another to work in us. If Christians understood t...

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]]> Tween Thongs tag:vox.com,2008-03-10:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ce2df2a0003 2008-03-22T03:24:54Z 2008-03-22T04:28:38Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

How far will marketers go?

David Kuo has a great post last month highlighting excerpts from a troubling article by Stacy Weiner from The Washington Post. Ms. Weiner's article is called, "Goodbye to Girlhood." In his blog, David laments the "nauseating trend of younger an...

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]]> Cheer Up! tag:vox.com,2008-03-10:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700e398e472a10005 2008-03-12T00:43:38Z 2008-03-12T00:50:52Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Cheer up!

A friend the other day challenged me that if I really was interested in making disciples, I'd get out of the church-business. (That's what a pastor does, you know: he's in the church business.) Why? My friend was convinced that he had never seen ...

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]]> Feasting and Death tag:vox.com,2008-01-14:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700e398d235090005 2008-01-14T06:51:06Z 2008-01-14T06:51:06Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Persephone

Reading the New Yorker recently, I came across a fantastic quote: Without a killing, there is no feast. Doing a quick search online, I found that it is quoted nowhere else except here, by an actor and instructor of acting, on his blog. (Interesti...

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]]> Breathtaking Grace tag:vox.com,2007-12-21:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700e398ca714b0003 2007-12-21T14:31:26Z 2007-12-21T14:31:26Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Steve Brown, in a recent issue of the Reformed Quarterly (Fall 2007) writes about Amazing Grace: I have also observed that those who first learn about the amazing grace of God often do, for a period, sin more than before. They are like the colleg...

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]]> Waiting for Christmas. tag:vox.com,2007-12-16:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700e398c8988f0001 2007-12-16T05:09:26Z 2008-01-15T07:15:19Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Rembrandt's Simeon

I love Christmas. Its like an old friend: it has its faults, to be sure, but when you’re reunited with her after not seeing her for a while, all you can think about is catching up on an old conversation. Then, of course, after the first glow, rea...

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]]> More than Revelation tag:vox.com,2007-12-02:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700e398c354820004 2007-12-02T04:40:25Z 2007-12-02T04:40:25Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom To welcome December and the Advent Season, a meditation on the Incarnation seems apt. This one is provided for us by C. S. Lewis, who, musing on the nature of God says... All three persons of the Trinity are declared ‘incomprehensible.’ God is pro...

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]]> Beauty in Ft. Collins tag:vox.com,2007-08-02:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700e39899fce10005 2007-08-02T21:52:31Z 2007-08-02T21:54:05Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Undeserved Redemption

At this year's annual gathering of pastors, elders, and church leaders for the Presbyterian Church in America (my denomination), I picked up a copy of Ruminate, a magazine by artists and poets for anyone who enjoys a different angle on the Christ...

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]]> Muzzled Oxen tag:vox.com,2007-05-26:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700d4143903bd6a47 2007-05-26T02:02:02Z 2007-05-26T02:02:02Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

A muzzled ox

There are days when I'm so busy working I don't take time to stop and eat lunch. Then, when 2:30pm or so rolls around, I find myself running on "fumes" as it were. As if in desperation, I stop, grab a bite (literally, "refuel") and I'm set for th...

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]]> Common Grace Development tag:vox.com,2007-05-17:asset-6a00d4141b72246a4700cd972aad8a4cd5 2007-05-17T19:11:09Z 2007-06-01T13:58:52Z Phil http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Trash Collection

Christians are not known for seeking out common ground with others. When we do, it is typically labeled--and not altogether without reason--compromise. But isn't it true that Christians have much in common with those who are not of the faith? T...

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