Recently I did a series of posts on Salvation, you can read the introduction to the series here. This post is a follow on to that series. Many Christians see Salvation as a line in the sand. It is the tool by which WE decided who is in and who is out. I remember the [...]

This post is part of a series of posts on the topic of Salvation. Here is the introduction to the series. Today I want to reflect on the picture of salvation that is given to us in the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13). The Lord’s Prayer is a great example not only of how to pray [...]

This post is final of a series of posts on the topic of Salvation. Here is the introduction to the series. I feel that there is really a lot of misconceptions out there about salvation. People don’t know how to explain salvation other than using classic cliques that are perhaps at best over simplified and [...]

This post is part of a series of posts on the topic of Salvation. Here is the introduction to the series. Yesterday I blogged on the topic of the fall and today I want to follow on with the closely related topic of depravity. Depravity is the theological concept that all humans are affected by [...]

This post is part of a series of posts on the topic of Salvation. Here is the introduction to the series. The Christian understanding of salvation is usually linked to the account of ‘the Fall’ told in Genesis chapter 3. I choose not to use the phrase ‘directly linked’ because I think that there are [...]

This post is part of a series of posts on the topic of Salvation. Here is the introduction to the series. Yesterday I was listening to an interview with Richard Rohr and he made an interesting comment. He talked about the idea of Salvation from dualism. Dualism is the idea of a state of opposites. [...]

This post is part of a series of posts on the topic of Salvation. Here is the introduction to the series. My previous post and subsequent discussion on the end of the world highlighted the image of a new creation. I think that the biblical theme of a new creation, which relates to both individuals [...]

This post is the introduction to a series of posts I am going to write on the topic of Salvation. This post will outline some of the questions that I am hoping to explore in the series. Why do we need to be saved? Some people think that a Christian understanding of salvation is just [...]