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Blessed Economist: Happy Cities (1)
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Being Church is our Calling. The Kingdom of God is our Glorious Hope. Sunday, August 09, 2015. In his book Happy City: Transforming our Lives through Urban Design. Explains that Urban Design has an effect on the way that people live. Here is a good quote. What we need are places that help us to moderate our interactions with strangers without having to retreat entirely (p.128). Separation was the natural response to the Industrial Revolution, which created cities, choking on soot and sewage (p.64). Subur...
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Blessed Economist: Big Narrative
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Being Church is our Calling. The Kingdom of God is our Glorious Hope. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. NT Wright on the Big Narrative. The ultimate post-modern thing is that you collapse the narrative, and then all you do is look inwards and you play with electronic toys. As human beings we function best in the big narrative, and the bible gives us that. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Christchurch, New Zealand. I am blessed to be an economist living in Christchurch watching what God is doing in the world.
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Blessed Economist: Pointless Destruction
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Being Church is our Calling. The Kingdom of God is our Glorious Hope. Friday, July 17, 2015. Saudi Arabia is currently engaged in an airwar against the nation of Yemen. Purportedly to return a President that no one wants. Matthieu Aikins recently sneaked into Yemen and filmed the destruction of homes and businesses. You can see his video at this link. Why does no one care about this pointless destruction? It is very hard to come up with a strategy that would work to effect change here. Click on the Image.
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Blessed Economist: Idolatry and Political Power
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Being Church is our Calling. The Kingdom of God is our Glorious Hope. Friday, July 31, 2015. Idolatry and Political Power. When spiritual principalities and powers get control of a political leader, they release a spirit of idolatry among the people to cement their authority in place. We can see the same thing in the United States. The idolatry manifests in an physical idol when a popular political leader dies. The best example are the Washington and Lincoln memorials, but the same thing exists i...The l...
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Blessed Economist: Surviving Persecution
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Being Church is our Calling. The Kingdom of God is our Glorious Hope. Saturday, July 25, 2015. Thinking about persecution got me wondering. What are the conditions under which persecution strengthens the church? Here is what I came up with. I presume that Church will survive better if they are prepared. Christians who just presume that persecution will make them stronger without taking actions to prepare will be caught out. Those who have learned to love one another when times are good will be better equ...
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Blessed Economist: Persecution and the Church
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Being Church is our Calling. The Kingdom of God is our Glorious Hope. Friday, July 24, 2015. Persecution and the Church. Last week in a post about Christian Culture in America, I commented that in such a violent country it could lead to nasty persecution once people realise that Christians are a weak minority. There might be a lot of revenge to implement. One commenter responded that “Christianity spreads best while Christians are being persecuted”. If Christians in the United States are persecuted in th...
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Blessed Economist: Building Christian Communities (2)
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Being Church is our Calling. The Kingdom of God is our Glorious Hope. Tuesday, August 04, 2015. Building Christian Communities (2). I am posting my notes on a book called “ Building Christians Communities. 8221; written by Stephen Clark. A community is a strong effective form of environment. Christians in the first four centuries were received into strong communities. Society is now de-Christianised, so Christian communities are now more necessary. It is no longer feasible to make society Christian.
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Blessed Economist: Unity
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Being Church is our Calling. The Kingdom of God is our Glorious Hope. Thursday, July 23, 2015. NT Wright on Unity. It is quite easy to do unity as long as you don’t care about holiness. And it is quite easy to some sort of holiness, if you don’t care about unity,. But doing the two together is jolly difficulty. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Christchurch, New Zealand. I am blessed to be an economist living in Christchurch watching what God is doing in the world. View my complete profile.
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Blessed Economist: Good Government?
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Being Church is our Calling. The Kingdom of God is our Glorious Hope. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Many Christians believe that,. Political power is designed by God to be good and just! This statement does not make sense. If God is the source of goodness, how does political power get to be good without him. What is the standard of goodness for political government? Where is it found” Aristotle or Madison? Political power will always be worldly, not good. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am blessed to be ...