Category: Kingdom Living
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Spanking as Sexual Violence: A Survivor’s Story
Editor’s Note: Here on the Kingdom Outpost, we welcome submissions from readers with testimonies and thoughts to share. These may represent a range of views – the editorial team has a range of views on many issues as well. This essay is a firsthand account of the effects of physical punishment in relation to sexual…
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The Gender Roles Debate: A Cruciform Kingdom Position (Part 1)
One of the most controversial yet fascinating topics of Scriptural study and application is the relationship between our cultural and society practices of gender, and the way gender and sex are discussed, practiced, and defined in Scripture. What this essay attempts is a theological response to current debates in the Protestant and Evangelical world from…
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Kingdom Womanhood: Making Home and Haven Part 2
Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. John 14:2 We often think of the Kingdom of God as a nation. How often do we think of the Kingdom as a home, as a family? Yet…
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Nosocomial Infections
“Look at that!” I said. “Look at what?” My wife asked, as we sped along the rural road. “You missed it,” I said. “But someone ran into the fence around that body shop back there. He knocked down part of the fence and really crumpled up his hood.” “Oh,” Elaine said, not particularly interested. “I…
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Kingdom Womanhood: Making Home and Haven Part 1
What was lost at creation was a place and a space of abundance, perfect communion, and glory. Adam and Eve were one with each other and one in God’s presence. As disciples saved from the power of Satan, we are brought once again in God’s place and space: the New Creation. It is even MORE…
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Marriage as a Kingdom Welcome: Sermon from the Wedding of Aaron and Mandie Miller
The last weekend of January 2023, marked a special day for two special people to the Kingdom Outpost: Along with Aaron and Mandie, we celebrated their union as husband and wife. Dru had the privilege of sharing the wedding message, and we thought you might enjoy it. In some ways, a wedding is simply an…
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Discipleship as Theology? Introducing the Kingdom Outpost Study Series #1
The Kingdom of God is the central proclamation of the good news of Jesus Christ, and it stands in contrast with the fallen ways of darkness, sin, and oppression in the world’s empires. The Kingdom of God is more than a worldview, because it is a ontology (way of being), not just an epistemology (way…
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She has done a beautiful thing: Kingdom Womanhood as Declaration
“Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. (Mark 14:6) Coming to Jesus fundamentally changes our entire being and existence in this world. This new life we live is in the power of God, rather than Satan (Acts 26:18). We have been delivered from darkness…
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Visions of Zion: Patriarchy as Promise, the Kingdom as Inheritance
“Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree And no one shall make them afraid.” They’ll be safe in the nation we’ve made I wanna sit under my own vine and fig tree A moment alone in the shade At home in this nation we’ve made.” This is one of the most beautiful…
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