The Bible on Self-Defense: a Response to Doug Wilson
Last Friday, pastor Doug Wilson and I gave talks on guns and violence at the Q conference in Denver. Might sound like a real shocker—two...
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Jesus Peace Collective is made up of a diverse and ecumenical group of Jesus followers that don't necessarily agree on all matters, but share a common conviction about the nonviolent and active peacemaking teachings of Jesus and the early church.
Dr. Preston Sprinkle
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What About Romans 13?
It’s fascinating (one might say disturbing) to see how each person’s political context shapes his or her understanding of Romans 13....
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Dr. Preston Sprinkle
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Jesus Said "Go Buy a Sword"?
Whenever I talk about Christians and violence, guns and self-defense, it’s inevitable that Luke 22 will come up. Supposedly, this passage...
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Dr. John Boyles
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The Message of the Cross is Foolishness to AI
Each fall it is my great pleasure to walk through the four Gospels with anywhere from two to four sections of first semester students at...
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Dr. Greg Boyd
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Jesus Said, “Buy a sword.” What did he mean?
In a previous post, I challenged the common assumption that Jesus was violent when he drove out the animals and turned over tables in the...
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Dr. Greg Boyd
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Was Jesus Violent in the Temple?
We need to realize that the temple system of selling sacrificial animals to worshipers had become extremely corrupted in Jesus’ day....
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Dr. Greg Boyd
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Who Killed Ananias and Sapphira?
In his critique of Crucifixion of the Warrior God (CWG), Paul Copan makes a concerted effort to argue that the God revealed in Jesus...
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John Markowski
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Violence & the "Un-Triumphal" Entry
John Markowski, pastor at Big Apple Church in New York, discusses the topic of violence as he looks at the "Un-Triumphal Entry" of Jesus...
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John Mark Comer
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Jesus on His Most Radical Idea: Enemy Love
We finally come to the last, and most radical, of Jesus’ six examples of his way: enemy love. For Jesus, it’s not enough to reject the...
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John Mark Comer
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Jesus on Breaking the Chain of Violence
Few of Jesus’ teachings are more thought-provoking and jarring to our culture than what he has to say on nonviolence and enemy love. To...
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Michelle Wright
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Jesus – the Passive Peacemaker?
I am news reporter and communications specialist by profession, I am not a theologian or a scholar. But when I think about the peace...
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Jon Sherwood
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Subversive Confrontation - Jesus' Third Way
In the context of the Kingdom of God, Jon Sherwood takes a look at the passion week of Christ in the gospel of John to show how Jesus...
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Jon Sherwood
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Apocalypse: Civil and Uncivil Worship
In a sermon series through the book of Revelation, Jon Sherwood calls for the church to remain separate from "the beast" and applies it...
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Jon Sherwood
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The Apocalypse: A Critique of Power
In a sermon series through the book of Revelation, Jon Sherwood looks at how Revelation critiques power, especially of that between Jesus...
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Jon Sherwood
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A Kingdom of Peace
Jon Sherwood preaches through Mat 5:21-48, the "6 antitheses" of Jesus' sermon on the mount. In particular he discusses the upside down...
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Dr. Douglas Jacoby
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Blessed are the Peacemakers - Mat 5:9
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God" (Matthew 5:9). "If most of us are honest with ourselves, we...
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