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12. Moving beyond the gathered church into the creation (part seven The Church Beyond the Congregation)
Nisan 28, 5784 / 7 April 2024 “What is evident….is that when we, with Paul arrive at the summit of the book of Romans, it is not the gathering that comes into view. Instead it is the sons and the… Continue reading
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11. Three cries and the new creation (Part 6 The Church beyond the Congregation review)
15 Adar 1, 5784 / 24 February 2024 James Thwaites makes a bold claim: “Everyone born into the Western world, Christian or not, inherits the mindset or worldview we have been looking at. This mindset has been developing for thousands… Continue reading
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10. The Reformation and Enlightenment pass on the Platonic baton to today (The Church Beyond the Congregation Part Five)
13 Kislev, 5784 / 25 November, 2023 In the last few posts I have been reviewing “The Church beyond the Congregation” by James Thwaites (Paternoster Press, 1999). Click here for Part 1. Thwaites so far has been arguing that a… Continue reading
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9. How the Platonic virus passed on through the generations (The Church Beyond the Congregation review part four)
28 Cheshvan, 5784 / 12 November, 2023 In the first chapters of The Church Beyond the Congregation ( CBC) James Thwaites established that the enemy sowed a type of mind construct or way of thinking in the ancient world which… Continue reading
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8. The Church beyond the Congregation (Part 3) The path to Platonic Virus world domination!
25 Cheshvan / 8 November, 2023 You feel like there is nothing more. No supernatural, other realm of God and angels. No divine beings to encounter. Any other spiritual realm, if it is there, is in a galaxy somewhere far,… Continue reading
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7. The Church Beyond the Congregation (Part 2)
18 Cheshvan, 5784 / 1 November, 2023 Yesterday, I introduced a book review series of The Church Beyond the Congregation by James Thwaites (Paternoster Press, 1999). This book is sweeping overview of the crisis faced by the church: a church… Continue reading
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6. The Church Beyond the Congregation (Part 1)
17 Cheshvan, 5784 / 31 October, 2023 Sometimes a book comes along which doesn’t just challenge but at a fundamental level provokes a complete reboot of the operating system! ‘The church Beyond the Congregation’ by James Thwaites is one such… Continue reading
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5. “I know that I know almost nothing and hardly that” Socrates vs Plato
9 Cheshvan, 5784 / 23 October, 2023 As I’ve just started to blog I love this 6 minute comparison Karl Popper made between the attitudes of Socrates and Plato in Ancient Greece. Mental note to self: keep this humble attitude… Continue reading
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4. What caused Noah’s Flood?
5 Cheshvan, 5784 / 20 October, 2023 credit: Wikimedia commons 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the… Continue reading
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3. Hebrew as the world’s oldest alphabet
5 Cheshvan, 5784 / 20 October, 2023 This is a fascinating discussion from 2017 revealing how Dr. Douglas Petrovich discovered evidence that perhaps points to the Hebrew Alphabet being derived from the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. He argues that this discovery… Continue reading
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