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Mar 05

Written Influences on my Faith

Posted by Matt Jones on Friday, March 5, 2010. Filed under Literature, Religion, Theology.

Recently, Cori asked about books that have influenced our journey of the Christian faith. I thought that was a great question and a difficult one to answer. I thought I would reproduce my response here:
This is a daunting task: how to narrow influential books down to a short list? These are a few that [...]

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Dec 21

In Which I Talk About Christmas

Posted by Matt Jones on Monday, December 21, 2009. Filed under Daily Life, Religion, Theology.

Don’t worry, I won’t talk much. Christmas is upon us once again and I can take a step back and relax. The year has been a good one. There have been a few key things that I have been dwelling on lately that I think fit well with an end of the year post [...]

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Apr 11

The Reality of Easter

Posted by Matt Jones on Saturday, April 11, 2009. Filed under Religion, Theology.

Easter is once again upon us. We are forced to deal with Good Friday and look forward to Easter. So often we want to focus on Easter, but we cannot forget what took place first at Calvary. Jesus was not brutally executed because he was a good teacher or because he was [...]

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Mar 10

“The coming evangelical collapse” - I don’t see it

Posted by Matt Jones on Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Filed under Religion, Theology.

Both Matt MacAdam and Bill Berger have pointed me to an article by Michael Spencer called The coming evangelical collapse:
An anti-Christian chapter in Western history is about to begin. But out of the ruins, a new vitality and integrity will rise (the original, complete posts can be found at Spencer’s website: The Original Coming Evangelical [...]

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Dec 21

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

Posted by Matt Jones on Sunday, December 21, 2008. Filed under Daily Life, Religion, Theology.

It’s that time of year again where we reflect on our lives and look forward to the celebration of the birth of Jesus. I have written other posts about this that I won’t bother to copy (but feel free to check them out, they are linked below). I just hope you will all [...]

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Oct 04

The Theology of Twilight?

Posted by Matt Jones on Saturday, October 4, 2008. Filed under Reading, Theology.

I’m not actually going try and link up Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight novels to Christian Theology. That would be silly and, I’m sure, quite against the intent of those novels. That being said, there was an interesting comment by Bella about Edward in New Moon that actually made me think about Christology.
It never made [...]

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