Quotes & Sayings


We, and creation itself, actualize the possibilities of the God who sustains the world, towards becoming in the world in a fuller, more deeper way. - R.E. Slater

There is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelated processes of which we are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have [consequential effects upon] the world around us. - Process Metaphysician Alfred North Whitehead

Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem says (i) all closed systems are unprovable within themselves and, that (ii) all open systems are rightly understood as incomplete. - R.E. Slater

The most true thing about you is what God has said to you in Christ, "You are My Beloved." - Tripp Fuller

The God among us is the God who refuses to be God without us, so great is God's Love. - Tripp Fuller

According to some Christian outlooks we were made for another world. Perhaps, rather, we were made for this world to recreate, reclaim, redeem, and renew unto God's future aspiration by the power of His Spirit. - R.E. Slater

Our eschatological ethos is to love. To stand with those who are oppressed. To stand against those who are oppressing. It is that simple. Love is our only calling and Christian Hope. - R.E. Slater

Secularization theory has been massively falsified. We don't live in an age of secularity. We live in an age of explosive, pervasive religiosity... an age of religious pluralism. - Peter L. Berger

Exploring the edge of life and faith in a post-everything world. - Todd Littleton

I don't need another reason to believe, your love is all around for me to see. – Anon

Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all. - Khalil Gibran, Prayer XXIII

Be careful what you pretend to be. You become what you pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut

Religious beliefs, far from being primary, are often shaped and adjusted by our social goals. - Jim Forest

We become who we are by what we believe and can justify. - R.E. Slater

People, even more than things, need to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. – Anon

Certainly, God's love has made fools of us all. - R.E. Slater

An apocalyptic Christian faith doesn't wait for Jesus to come, but for Jesus to become in our midst. - R.E. Slater

Christian belief in God begins with the cross and resurrection of Jesus, not with rational apologetics. - Eberhard Jüngel, Jürgen Moltmann

Our knowledge of God is through the 'I-Thou' encounter, not in finding God at the end of a syllogism or argument. There is a grave danger in any Christian treatment of God as an object. The God of Jesus Christ and Scripture is irreducibly subject and never made as an object, a force, a power, or a principle that can be manipulated. - Emil Brunner

“Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh” means "I will be that who I have yet to become." - God (Ex 3.14) or, conversely, “I AM who I AM Becoming.”

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. - Thomas Merton

The church is God's world-changing social experiment of bringing unlikes and differents to the Eucharist/Communion table to share life with one another as a new kind of family. When this happens, we show to the world what love, justice, peace, reconciliation, and life together is designed by God to be. The church is God's show-and-tell for the world to see how God wants us to live as a blended, global, polypluralistic family united with one will, by one Lord, and baptized by one Spirit. – Anon

The cross that is planted at the heart of the history of the world cannot be uprooted. - Jacques Ellul

The Unity in whose loving presence the universe unfolds is inside each person as a call to welcome the stranger, protect animals and the earth, respect the dignity of each person, think new thoughts, and help bring about ecological civilizations. - John Cobb & Farhan A. Shah

If you board the wrong train it is of no use running along the corridors of the train in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God's justice is restorative rather than punitive; His discipline is merciful rather than punishing; His power is made perfect in weakness; and His grace is sufficient for all. – Anon

Our little [biblical] systems have their day; they have their day and cease to be. They are but broken lights of Thee, and Thou, O God art more than they. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

We can’t control God; God is uncontrollable. God can’t control us; God’s love is uncontrolling! - Thomas Jay Oord

Life in perspective but always in process... as we are relational beings in process to one another, so life events are in process in relation to each event... as God is to Self, is to world, is to us... like Father, like sons and daughters, like events... life in process yet always in perspective. - R.E. Slater

To promote societal transition to sustainable ways of living and a global society founded on a shared ethical framework which includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, economic justice, democracy, and a culture of peace. - The Earth Charter Mission Statement

Christian humanism is the belief that human freedom, individual conscience, and unencumbered rational inquiry are compatible with the practice of Christianity or even intrinsic in its doctrine. It represents a philosophical union of Christian faith and classical humanist principles. - Scott Postma

It is never wise to have a self-appointed religious institution determine a nation's moral code. The opportunities for moral compromise and failure are high; the moral codes and creeds assuredly racist, discriminatory, or subjectively and religiously defined; and the pronouncement of inhumanitarian political objectives quite predictable. - R.E. Slater

God's love must both center and define the Christian faith and all religious or human faiths seeking human and ecological balance in worlds of subtraction, harm, tragedy, and evil. - R.E. Slater

In Whitehead’s process ontology, we can think of the experiential ground of reality as an eternal pulse whereby what is objectively public in one moment becomes subjectively prehended in the next, and whereby the subject that emerges from its feelings then perishes into public expression as an object (or “superject”) aiming for novelty. There is a rhythm of Being between object and subject, not an ontological division. This rhythm powers the creative growth of the universe from one occasion of experience to the next. This is the Whiteheadian mantra: “The many become one and are increased by one.” - Matthew Segall

Without Love there is no Truth. And True Truth is always Loving. There is no dichotomy between these terms but only seamless integration. This is the premier centering focus of a Processual Theology of Love. - R.E. Slater

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Note: Generally I do not respond to commentary. I may read the comments but wish to reserve my time to write (or write off the comments I read). Instead, I'd like to see our community help one another and in the helping encourage and exhort each of us towards Christian love in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. - re slater

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Monday, October 31, 2011

Final Review: Rob Bell + Love Wins = Go and Make Disciples

Rob Bell Responds to Charges of Universalism
before the release of his book, Love Wins

March 13, 2011

 
Part 1: Rob addressing Mars Hill about his new book Love Wins before it is released.
[March 13, 2011] [Live Shadow-cast]


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Rob Bell Thanks Mars Hill for helping him write Love Wins
March 13, 2011

Rob Bell Explains 'Love Wins' to Mars Hill | 2011   

Part 2: Rob thanking Mars Hill for inspiring his new book Love Wins before it is released.
[March 13, 2011] [Live Shadow-cast]


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Rob Bell "What I Believe" after the release of his book, Love Wins
March 27, 2011

~ both videos are similar but each begin and end differently and together
give a fuller presentation of Rob's Introduction to the Churches of Revelation ~





Rob addressing Mars Hill about his new book 'Love Wins' after it was released.
[March 27, 2011] [Live Audio]

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Rob Bell Defends himself and his church Mars Hill, pt.1
April 22, 2011





Rob Bell Defends himself and his church Mars Hill, pt.2
April 22, 2011





Rob Bell Defends himself and his church Mars Hill, pt.3
April 22, 2011

"Go and Make Disciples"






Monday, October 3, 2011

Rob Bell - Sermons on Philippians


Teaching Archives of Rob Bell on Phillippians
http://marshill.org/teaching/past-teachings/

*Each .mp3 file may be found on the Internet but are here linked to their originating source at Mars Hill Church (for a small donation).

*If there are any Google bloggers who are technically proficient and willing to link each .mp3 file below to this site page, this help would be appreciated. Each line will need its own embedded code and a reasonably stable link that will be available for years and years. Or, perhaps there is an Internet channel that can be used. Comments may be made below.



Philippians pt 01: Grace And Peace - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 02: A Good Work - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 03: All Of You - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 04: Abound - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 05: What Has Happened To Me - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 06: But What Does It Matter - Kent Dobson
Philippians pt 07: My Deliverance - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 08: Exalted In My Body - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 09: I Do Not Know - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 10: Progress And Joy - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 11: Boasting Will Abound - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 12: A Worthy Manner - Brian Mucci
Philippians pt 13: Same Struggle - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 14: One Mind - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 15: Others - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 16: Grasping And Giving - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 17: The Crux And The Hyperhypsosem - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 18: God Works In You - David Livermore
Philippians pt 19: Shine Like Stars - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 20: A Life Poured Out - John Ortberg
Philippians pt 21: Examples - Leroy Barber
Philippians pt 22: Beware The Dogs - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 23: Skubalon - Greg Boyd
Philippians pt 24: Blocks And Boards - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 25: I've Got You Hanging Around My Neck - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 26: I Will Say It Again, And Again, And Again - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 27: An Odd But Ancient Way To Live - Tim Brown
Philippians pt 28: The Right Kind Of Contentment - Richard Mouw
Philippians pt 29: Who Doesn't Want In On That? - Rob Bell
Philippians pt 30: Letter On A Letter - Rob Bell








Rob Bell - Sermons on the "Letters to the Seven Churches of Revelation"



Teaching Archives of Rob Bell on the "Letters to the Seven Churches of Revelation"
http://marshill.org/teaching/past-teachings/ ( ~ 2010 - 2011 )

Yet again, an  e-x-c-e-l-l-e-n-t   series. Profound, convicting, motivating. - res

*Each .mp3 file may be found on the Internet but are here linked to their originating source at Mars Hill Church (for a small donation).

*If there are any Google bloggers who are technically proficient and willing to link each .mp3 file below to this site page, this help would be appreciated. Each line will need its own embedded code and a reasonably stable link that will be available for years and years. Or, perhaps there is an Internet channel that can be used. Comments may be made below.



Letters To The Seven Churches pt 1: Rev 2: First Love - Rob Bell
Letters To The Seven Churches pt 2: Rev 2: Lighting The Wick - Shane Hipps
Letters To The Seven Churches pt 3: Rev 2: The Agony Of Explanation - Rob Bell
Letters To The Seven Churches pt 4: Rev 2: Thyatira - Richard Mouw
Letters To The Seven Churches pt 5: Rev 3: Fool's Gold - Shane Hipps
Letters To The Seven Churches pt 6: Rev 3: Sardis - Rob Bell







Rob Bell - Sermons on the Kingdom of God


Teaching Archives  of Rob Bell on the Kingdom of God
http://marshill.org/teaching/past-teachings/

Here is another  e-x-c-e-l-l-e-n-t   series. Profound, convicting, motivating. - res

*Each .mp3 file may be found on the Internet but are here linked to their originating source at Mars Hill Church (for a small donation).

*If there are any Google bloggers who are technically proficient and willing to link each .mp3 file below to this site page, this help would be appreciated. Each line will need its own embedded code and a reasonably stable link that will be available for years and years. Or, perhaps there is an Internet channel that can be used. Comments may be made below.



Kingdom pt 1: Suffer The Kindness - Dan Allender
Kingdom pt 2: Within You - Shane Hipps
Kingdom pt 3: Weeds - Rob Bell
Kingdom pt 4: Sleeping - Shane Hipps
Kingdom pt 5: Returning To The Field - Shane Hipps
Kingdom pt 6: Ten Virgins - Rob Bell
Kingdom pt 7: The Learner - Shane Hipps







Rob Bell - Sermons on the Sermon on the Mount


Teaching Archives of Rob Bell on the "Sermon on the Mount"
http://marshill.org/teaching/past-teachings/   ( ~ 2009 - 2010 )

This is an  e-x-c-e-l-l-e-n-t  series. My all time favorite. Profound, convicting, motivating. - res

*Each .mp3 file may be found on the Internet but are here linked to their originating source at Mars Hill Church (for a small donation).

*If there are any Google bloggers who are technically proficient and willing to link each .mp3 file below to this site page, this help would be appreciated. Each line will need its own embedded code and a reasonably stable link that will be available for years and years. Or, perhaps there is an Internet channel that can be used. Comments may be made below.



Resurrection - Rob Bell







Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Rob Bell - Conformation (1 John 3.11-18)

1 John 3. 11-18 – OPENING YOUR SPLANCHNON

(Click on this link to hear or download the .mp3 file)



1 John 3.11-18 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3&version=ESV)
Love One Another
11For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

12We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. 13Do not be surprised, brothers,[c] that the world hates you. 14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

16By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 18Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.


SPLANCHNON: Though a strange expression in our modern
cultures here is a recent example of its use -
 
"My Stomach is full of anger and I want to take my revenge"
                                                                                          - Andy Schlech

 
Andy Schleck comments on Alberto Contrador's
tactics of passing him when seeing his bike chain
come off on Stage 15 of the 2010 TDF

SPLANCHNON as a motivator months and months later -
2011 TDF Update: Andy Schleck takes his revenge on Stage 18 one year later:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Rob Bell - Transformation (1 John 2.28-3.2)

"I Know Johnny (the artist)"

(Click on this link to hear or download the .mp3 file)













A video of an artist who steadily transforms
an art piece from nothing to only something
that he "sees" and wishes to produce in his time.



1 John 2 (English Standard Version)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20John%202&version=ESV
Christ Our Advocate
1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. 3And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. 4Whoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 5but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 6whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
The New Commandment
7Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because[a] the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. 9Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. 10Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him[b] there is no cause for stumbling. 11But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.




 12I am writing to you, little children,
because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake.

 13I am writing to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men,
because you have overcome the evil one.
I write to you, children,
because you know the Father.

 14I write to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
because you are strong,
and the word of God abides in you,
and you have overcome the evil one.

Do Not Love the World
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world— the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
Warning Concerning Antichrists
18Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. 20But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.[c] 21I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. 22Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. 24Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25And this is the promise that he made to us[d] eternal life.

26I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. 27But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
Children of God
28And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. 29If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.


Footnotes:
  1. 1 John 2:8 Or that
  2. 1 John 2:10 Or it
  3. 1 John 2:20 Some manuscripts you know everything
  4. 1 John 2:25 Some manuscripts you

1 John 3 (English Standard Version) 

1See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears[a] we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

4Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. 5You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. 6No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. 7Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. 8 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s[b] seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. 10By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

Love One Another

11For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. 13Do not be surprised, brothers,[c] that the world hates you. 14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

16By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 18Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

19By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; 20for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 21Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; 22and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. 23And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. 24 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God,[d] and God[e] in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.

Footnotes:
  1. 1 John 3:2 Or when it appears
  2. 1 John 3:9 Greek his
  3. 1 John 3:13 Or brothers and sisters. The plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) refers to siblings in a family. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, adelphoi may refer either to men or to both men and women who are siblings (brothers and sisters) in God’s family, the church; also verses 14, 16
  4. 1 John 3:24 Greek him
  5. 1 John 3:24 Greek he