February 2012
Part 4 in a series on The Cultural Mandate
We have been talking about the Cultural Mandate found in Genesis 1:28,
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish [...]
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Part 3 in a series on The Cultural Mandate
Yesterday, we talked about our job description given to us in the very beginning of Creation – the Cultural Mandate. It’s a call to steward creation, a call given not just to Adam and Eve but to us as well. This [...]
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Part 2 in a series on The Cultural Mandate
In the opening chapter of Genesis we find God giving Man (male and female) a job description. It is called the “Cultural Mandate,” also sometimes called the “Creation Mandate”:
God blessed them and said to [...]
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Part 2 in a series on Economics 101
Last week we talked about our fallen-ness and the implications that has for our lives on earth. Economics helps us understand how to flourish in spite of our fallen-ness. It helps us deal with our world where abundance in everything no longer exists. [...]
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Part 1 in a series on The Cultural MandateThe difference between barbarism and culture is, simply, work.
—Lester DeKoster
I have an odd collection: a business card from every job I have worked since college and it is a large stack. At last count I have worked [...]
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Part 6 in a series on The Four-Chapter Gospel
Let’s summarize our discussion of the Four-Chapter Gospel from these past several days:
For 1800 years the metanarrative of the Bible was taught in four chapters, creation, fall, redemption and restoration. In the last 200 years, the evangelical church in [...]
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Part 5 in a series on The Four-Chapter Gospel
Drawing our missional role from the metanarrative of Scripture as we discussed in our last post stands in stark contrast to the way most evangelical Christians use and understand the Bible today.
A number of years ago I was invited to [...]
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Part 4 in a series on The Four-Chapter Gospel
In the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers the main characters Jake and Elwood said they were on a mission from God. They weren’t, but we are…
In our last post on The Four-Chapter Gospel, we [...]
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