1/ Nicene Creed: The good and the missing/bad/inadequate.

I believe in the propositions contained in the Nicene Creed entirely and without reservation.

However, its inadequacies have proved to be disastrous for the church through the centuries. 2/ The creed proposes that Jesus was the divinely begotten Son of God, the risen Christ, true God and true man. However, the message of Jesus and His Kingdom are entirely missing as it skips without pause from His miraculous birth to His death by crucifixion.

Christian Cultural and Ideological Captivity? To the extent that our spiritual, philosophical, sociological, economic, and political views are not intentionally and explicitly derived from Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount is the extent to which we are in cultural and ideological captivity--such is the case in the past and…

1/ Daily Life in the Sermon on the Mount (The Sermon in 1 year – a page a day in 2023)

Day 2: The Sermon on the Mount (SOM) in the context of Isaiah.

I cannot overestimate the importance of grounding the SOM in the realism of Isaiah. 2/ Failure to anchor the SOM in Isaiah inevitably results in Christianity being co-opted and acculturated to one’s fallen ambient culture. Perhaps the best illustration of this is Nazi Germany, where the vast majority, 97% by some estimates, supported Naziism and Hitler.

1/ Daily Life in the Sermon on the Mount (A page a day in 2023)

Day 1: Introduction

The Sermon on the Mount (SOM) is Christ’s book on ethics and spiritual transformation. 2/ Among the many names, the SOM has been called the Magna Carta of Christian liberty, the Guide to Kingdom Life, the Kingdom Manifesto, and the Christian manifesto.