by Jonathan Miles | Nov 8, 2018 | Atonement, Grace, Redemption, Repentance, Salvation, Sin
I call to you with one lung exploded, from breathing the dust of the earth, With my tongue eroded from licking the crust of the Earth, Thus begins one of my favorite songs. The artist is a band big in the 90s called The Choir. It is a modern day Psalm of redemption....
by Jonathan Miles | Oct 15, 2015 | Atonement, Baptism, Christ and the Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, Worship
My church does does a few weird things that I’ve come to love. The first is that we have communion every Sunday. I know, I know. For some of you that’s not weird at all. But before I moved above the Mason-Dixon line, we were lucky to do it once a quarter....
by Guest Writer | Oct 4, 2015 | Atonement, Baptism, Cults and Religions, Divination, Hinduism, MCOI Journal, New Apostles and Prophets, Paganism, Rodney Howard-Browne, Spring 1999, Wicca, Word Faith
Jeffrey M. Spencer (This originally appeared in the Spring 1999 edition of the MCOI Journal) beginning on page 8) INTRODUCTION The “Brownsville Revival” began at the Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida on Father’s Day (June 18, 1995) under the...
by Jonathan Miles | Dec 5, 2013 | Atonement, Christ and the Church, Church, Church Fathers, Culture and Society, Evil, Jesus Seminar, John Dominic Crossan, Liberal Theology
While surfing the interweb the other day I happened upon yet another attempt at describing the “people you meet” in society. Apparently stereo-typing people is some sort of hobby on line. But one of these got my attention. I can’t vouch for anything...
by Jonathan Miles | Nov 10, 2011 | Atheism, Atonement, Defend the Faith, General
“Is Christianity Good for the World?” Thus asks a new book co-authored by Christian philosopher and pastor, Douglas Wilson, and media maven and everyone’s favorite curmudgeonly atheist Christopher Hitchens. What started as an email exchange was...
by Don Veinot | Mar 24, 2011 | Atheism, Atonement, Culture Driven Church, Emerging Church, General
Rob Bell has certainly ratcheted up the question of eternity in Christian and secular discussion with his book Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived . Many know that when I was younger I was an atheist and came to faith once...
