Jesus and Taxes

Hey, I won’t do this all the time, but since some of you might not have updated your RSS feeds yet, I wanted to let you know about a new post I wrote over at Jesus Politics on Jesus and Taxes. You can read it here.

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Jesus, a Suicide?

Well here I am working overnights again. I helped a friend write something for her class. Her textbook claimed that Jesus' death was a suicide. So we wrote something to post on their online discussion about it. Here it is:

Was Jesus’ death a suicide? This is a complicated question that is irrevocably tied to what [...]

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On Earth as it is in Heaven

Well, I had to write a manuscript sermon for my Matthew class on one of the sections of the Sermon on the Mount. I choose the “Lord’s prayer”. My audience was the church I worked at this summer. As such, it was pretty basic, and I tried to keep everything in very laymen’s terms. here [...]

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self-abnegation?

Much discussion has taken place concerning the ethics of “self-abnegation” in Jesus’ ministry. Many of these discussions drawn fruitful conclusions, however, I do not know if I agree with the premise (or, perhaps the wording of the premise).
Jesus constantly refers to the concept of desiring things that are not of this world over and above [...]

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