Top Posts
- Swedish black metal band studied catholicism so intensely for more efficient blasphemy wound up converting to it.
- Wisdom: What is It? by Tim Keller (What is the Fear of the LORD: Negative Fear vs. Positive Fear)
- Wind, Fire and Tongues at Pentecost
- the Chesterton quote Zizek pointed JBP towards...
- What A Man Peeing on My Neighbor's House Taught Me about America's Ability to Learn God's Holiness
- Could Jesus Fly? Will We?
- Continuing Conversations around Confessionalism in the CRC
- Notes from Tim Keller's Sermon "Joy"
- "The Romantic Solution" from Earnest Becker's "The Denial of Death"
- Dallas Willard on not having to have the last word
Category Cloud
Blog note book review book writing CRC Culture commentary Daily Links and Notes Devotional Reflection How to become a Christian Institutional Church Link Compilations Links Missional On the way to Sunday's sermon Pastoral Identity philosophical reflection Quotations Saved Blog Comments Saved CRCVoices Posts Sermon Illustrations Sermon Outline Sermon Recordings Tech tools theological the self Tweets Uncategorized Understanding the Bible Video Wisdom YouTube Comments to RememberTag Cloud
- #crcstructure
- Abortion
- Acts
- Advent
- Advent 2014
- age of decay
- age to come
- A Secular Age
- Benedict Option
- book of Leviticus
- Calvin College
- Charles Taylor
- Christmas
- City Church San Francisco
- Confessional conversation
- CS Lewis
- David Brooks
- Donald Trump
- Douthat
- Dreher
- Esther
- Exodus
- Genesis
- hell
- Inspire2017
- James
- John Suk
- Jonathan Haidt
- Jordan Peterson
- Katy Perry
- Keller
- Kierkegaard
- King David
- King Saul
- Lent
- Leviticus
- Meme of the week
- Moses
- NT Wright
- Palm Sunday
- Pentecost
- Peter Enns
- Peter Kreeft
- Pope Francis
- Progressive Liberationism
- Racism
- raising of lazarus
- RCA
- reflected self
- relational polarity
- resurrection
- Rob Bell
- Rod Dreher
- Ryan Bell
- Skye Jethani
- SSM
- Steve Jobs
- Synod
- Synod2015
- Synod2016
- the book of exodus
- The Book of Judges
- The book of Kings
- The book of Leviticus
- The Book of Luke
- the book of Numbers
- The Book of Samuel
- the Gospel of John
- The Gospel of Matthew
- The Road to Character
- the self book
- The Ten Commandments
- Tim Keller
- Tom Holland
- transgender
Twitter Feed
Tweets by paulvanderklay
Tag Archives: the Gospel of John
Woke Judas
In Judas' objection to Jesus' costly anointing by Mary we see a show of concern for the poor empty of first person action. Jesus' "the poor you will always have with you" may seem callous coming from a cis-male to … Continue reading
Peter son of Jonah dives into the sea
John 21 Why does Peter jump into the sea? Why the attention to his nakedness which was culturally inappropriate? Why do modern commentators focus on the mechanics of the historical layer rather than the symbolism in a chapter that nearly … Continue reading
Why the Resurrected Jesus tells Mary to stop clinging and why this dislocates us from the deadly center of the story
Personal Apocalypse One of the most popular stories in the Wall Street Journal this week is about Charles Murphy. This is how the article was titled Wall Street Made Charles Murphy Successful and Rich, but Happiness Eluded Him After his apparent … Continue reading
Can you still trust Jesus if he intentionally let Lazarus die and his sisters suffer that trauma?
What did Jesus Want to Accomplish by Raising Lazarus from the Dead? Our story today is a well known one. Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Now you may not believe this ever happened, your may believe it did. But … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links and Notes
Tagged Lent, Raising Lazarus, raising of lazarus, the Gospel of John
1 Comment
How Jesus Rescued a Socially Outcast Woman across Gender, Ethnic and Religious Battle Lines and showed himself to be Lord of All
Globalization-Pluralism-Skepticism In his book Getting Religion Kenneth Woodward, former religion editor at Newsweek Magazine reviews the religious movements, trends and changes he observed in America from the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s up to the Obama administration. The list of formal, … Continue reading
Born from Above by the Man from Heaven in a Pluralistic World
The Great Birkini Debate This past summer the debate about religious clothing in France reached a global audience when police enforced a ban on the birkini, modest swimwear that many Muslim women were wearing. This set up the uncomfortable situation … Continue reading
Why the Poor Are Always Us and Why Mary Was the Best Disciple
Poverty “Larry” (I have no idea if this was his legal name) used to sleep under a bush in the back lawn of the church more than a decade ago. He painted apartments for a guy who needed to … Continue reading
Posted in On the way to Sunday's sermon
Tagged Lent, Raising Lazarus, raising of lazarus, the Gospel of John
Leave a comment
Why the Golden Rule is both Dysfunctional Tyranny and Invitation to Joy
Presenting at the Art Institute Every few months a friend of mine invites me to present Christianity in his class “Myth, Ritual and Magic” at the Art Institute of Sacramento. I love presenting in that context. The classes are filled … Continue reading
Posted in On the way to Sunday's sermon
Tagged CS Lewis, Golden Rule, Love One Another, the golden rule, the Gospel of John
9 Comments
Sickness Unto Death
Why Didn’t Jesus Just Start Raising Lots of People? We saw with the Iranian Cleric raising the dead thought experiment that a person possessing this kind of power walking around among us would almost certainly provoke us to kill this person … Continue reading
Why Divine Personhood Offends us to the point of Deicide
Raising the Dead Thought Experiment The above link is the raising the dead thought experiment where I discuss what might happen if an Iranian cleric was able to raise the dead and why the peoples of the world might have … Continue reading
Leadingchurch.com 