Sublime

The man I came to know well, over burgers and coffee and old photos and worn bible pages, was a man childlike and growing to the end, proof that the “good news” he always preached could be lived for a lifetime and remain good. His faith and life’s accomplishments did not produce a dour moralism. It did not produce a Graceland-sized ego. For all his

M). Theosis opposes deism by stating in the words of Paul that “we no longer live” but that Jesus’s being lives in and through us as Jesus shares our being by entering our person through the negation of our death experiences. Faith and its formation, then, is something radically different from a program for making our institutions effective by maki

ordinary life was your highest good—you needed to attend to your own flourishing first.23

Many of the people who call themselves Christians spend most of their lives

theologians have been saying for a long time that we should conceive of Christian faith more as a way of life than as assent to a list of propositional assertions.

Christians are simul justus et peccator—simultaneously perfectly righteous in Christ and in the Father’s eyes yet in ourselves very flawed and sinful. This leads to a security and humility that live together.

As a household of ministry, the shape of a church’s gathered life revolves around three core dispositions that continue to renew the household as ministry. These three dispositions are directed not toward the household itself but toward Jesus, the one who is ministry.

Keller’s apologetic model for politics was perfectly suited for the “neutral world.” But the “negative world” is a different place. Tough choices are increasingly before us, offense is unavoidable, and sides will need to be taken on very important issues. Recent events have proven that being winsome in this moment will not guarantee a favorable hea