1 – Mystery and Confusion
Understanding the Impossible
The Impossible Story
Conflicts and Tensions
Conflicts are clues
Dynamic Tension
2 – The impossible God
3 – The impossible creatures
Reflecting God’s paradoxes
Body, Soul and Spirit
Transcendent and Immanent
In Time and In an Eternal Future
Co-Sovereigns and Servant
Merciful and Just
Playful and Orderly
Reflecting God’s goodness
Generous and overflowing shalom
Trustworthy and Faithful
Self-Sacrificing and Forgiving
Temple stewards
4 – The rebellion
5 – Family to Nation
6 – A Nation Settles
7 – The Prophets and Writings
Messengers of a Greater Power
Challenging Unfaithfulness
Lament and Anger
Future Hope
The strange story of the ark and the tabernacle
The Ark in the Promised Land
The Tabernacle and the Temple
Diaspora
Judgement Unfolds
Worship in exile
Return
Songs and reflections of the heart
Silence and waiting
8 – The kingdom enters – hope revealed, unleashing shalom
Looking back – Signs and shadows of the kingdom
Looking for Messiah
The Messiah comes
Personal, Not Political
John the Baptist (Immerser)
Joseph and Mary
Expectant Magi and the non-expectant king
Immanuel
Inaugurating the ministry
The Kingdom is near again
Baptism, Anointing Temptation
The Kingdom Arrives
Kingdom questions and parables
Inheriting the Kingdom
The Kingdom expand
Passion unto death
9 – Culture wars
Intertestament Overview
Jewish and other sects in the Time of Jesus
Cultural Issues
10 – Launching the Church: Apostles and the Early Church
Led by the Spirit
No detailed strategic plan, but promises and presence
The Spirit and the power
The Spirit and the Story
The Spirit and the Scattering
The Spirit and the Servant-Leaders
Building and Growing the Church
The basics of the faith
The Desires and Fruits of Faith
Disciplines of the faith
The community of faith
Guarding the faith
Future of the faith
11 – Issues of the church
The Context of Theology
The limits of theology
The Challenge of the Church
The contributions of the Church
Historical Issues Affecting the Church
Questions from the Church
12 – Remembering our Creation
Our Mandate
Our Relationships
Our Provision
Our Limits
Lamenting our Brokenness
Rejoicing in the hope of God
13 – Reforming our Souls
Reforming our Loves
Disciplines of our heart
Fruits of the discipline
The Discipline
Discovering how we are formed – for each other
14 – Fixing Our Eyes
Everything Belongs
Created to grow
The Kingdom is Come and Not Yet
Ministry of Reconciliation
New Jerusalem’s Urban Garden
15 – Finding our Place
Relation to Yahweh
Relation to Self
Relation to Church
Created as parts of a body
Created to gather and build
Community of persons, not groups
Relation to the community outside the church
Not Yet, But Already
Preparing to Engage with Those Outside the Church
Flourishing community
Listening to our culture
Strategies in cultural engagement
16 – Entering the Dance
Occupy Till I Come
Charting a Path Forward
Bottom-up strategy
Top-down strategy
Vocational stewardship
Reimagining our society
Reorienting Our institutions
Reclaiming the institutional church
Re-envisioning our culture
Re-envisioning Our Given Environment
Re-envisioning Our Inhabited Environment
Reimagining Our Vocation
Principles
Reconciliation
Dancing In The Kingdom 