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Political Rebirth and the Kingdom of God
The book of John is among one of four gospels in the New Testament, yet it is in a class of its own. While the other three gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are considered synoptic gospels, John is quite a bit different. John frames his gospel to accentuate various teachings not highlighted as much in…
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(Video) How Should Christians Think about Same-Sex Attraction? Feat. Abram Martin & Darnell Rohrer
Abram Martin, a member of our Kingdom Outpost team, and Darnell Rohrer join Asher Witmer’s Unfeigned Christianity Podcast to talk about same sex attraction. Check out Abram’s previous interview with That Jesus Podcast. Also, visit Asher Witmer’s website for articles, podcasts, videos and more! Is same-sex attraction lust? What causes someone to be same-sex attraction?…
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God’s Government in the Hebrew Scriptures
Francis James, host of That Jesus Podcast, has a deep passion for missions and also for transformation in the church. He is currently working on a book about radical Christianity that he hopes will be scholarly, accessible, and culturally-aware. Rather than contending for a specific theological position or worldview, I want to explore what it…
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Five Resources To Challenge and Encourage You This Week
Recently, several timely and expedient articles were published that we found valuable and relevant. We also regularly share videos, sermons and podcasts on our Instagram and Facebook feeds as well as weekly emails, with the aim of saturating our lives and online interactions with with edifying, challenging, and encouraging content centered our lives in Jesus’s…
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Unsung Heroes: Women of the Radical Reformation
When you grow up in an Anabaptist culture, the history of your ancestors is often taught across the pulpit, in school, and even at home. Names like Conrad Grebel, Michael Sattler, Dirk Willems, Menno Simons, and many more are names that are almost as familiar as Moses, Noah, Abraham, and David. Our ancestors believed that…
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The Stars and Stripes and the Tension Between
The party had been going for two full days, and my hosts said we had another day. Sitting in a jungle village, surrounded by an inscrutable language, I felt lost. But it wasn’t just the foreign-to-me tongue that left me bewildered: Behind the loud music, half-drunken laughter, gambling, and endless food, I could hear loud,…
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Write for the Kingdom Outpost: Updates, Themes, and Topics!
The Kingdom Outpost was started as a hub bringing together and building up communities, “outposts” of Jesus’s Kingdom, through podcasts, videos, articles, blogs, emails, social media and other resources. What we’re hoping to do build a platform around a Christ-centered “Kingdom vision” – discipleship, nonviolence or radical love, nonconformity, and turning the world “upside-down”. What…
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(That Jesus Podcast) Ep.57 Sex is Good!
“In this final episode in our series on sex and gender, Dru and Lisl have a (mostly) unscripted conversation about God’s good design for sex. Learn about the sex lives of camel drivers and whether sex is more like glue or a crescent wrench.” Also check out previous episodes on sexual holiness, same-sex attraction, transgender…
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Jesus, Mother Hens, and Chicks
Jesus was a master of illustrations. His illustrations resonated with His hearers. He knew the community and their experiences. He exploited that to bless them. As a boy on the farm years ago, we had chickens running loose around the farm buildings. Roosters and hens were prolific and plentiful. Memorable were the occasions when the…
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(Podcast) Interviews with Dr. Preston Sprinkle: Sexual Holiness and Transgender Identity
Today we are starting our series on sex and gender! Our first guest is someone we have both followed for a while–Dr. Preston Sprinkle. Preston lays out some of the problems with what Dru calls the purity industrial complex and helps us frame the conversation in a more healthy way. Our latest episode tackles an…
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