Weekly Compendium

Feb 07, 2022

Here are the posts you may have missed from the last week. And since last week’s compendium didn’t make it out (my apologies), I included those as well.

Along the Way with Jonas Ellison

Christianity: A religion that ends religiosity

Listen now (4 min) | Contrary to popular belief, the death and resurrection of Jesus didn’t usher in a new religion. Rather, it marked the end of religiosity. Religiosity, or the religious impulse, is based on if/then logic… IF you follow the rules, THEN God will favor you…

3 years ago · 6 likes · 1 comment · Jonas Ellison

Along the Way with Jonas Ellison

Overdosing on doom

Two headlines that just hit my newsfeed... The WHO says the next COVID variant will be more infectious than Omicron, and it might be more deadly Russia moves troops and U.S. sends weapons as fear of war mounts in Ukraine It’s too much, you guys. Seriously…

3 years ago · 7 likes · 1 comment · Jonas Ellison

Along the Way with Jonas Ellison

Gospel freedom

It’s when we realize that there’s nothing we have to do that we are suddenly free to do, well... Just about anything…

3 years ago · 1 like · Jonas Ellison

Along the Way with Jonas Ellison

Crisis of approval

The first word of the final judgment from the cross is essentially this: “Hey, y’all... You’re okay!” Not very many of us can stomach this. It inflicts a crisis of approval not of condemnation. You and I can rebel all we want and there’s no way we’re ever squirming out…

3 years ago · 2 likes · Jonas Ellison

Along the Way with Jonas Ellison

Out of steam

We can’t get to heaven on our own steam. Heaven comes to us when we run out of steam and are at the mercy of the gravitational holy force of a resurrection that creates life out of death…

3 years ago · 4 likes · Jonas Ellison

Along the Way with Jonas Ellison

When the work starts to rhyme

There comes a moment in doing your reading where new work begins to rhyme. When you start to see the connections. When you understand who influenced the person you’re engaging with right now. That’s the moment to begin shipping your work and making your own assertions…

3 years ago · 7 likes · 2 comments · Jonas Ellison

Along the Way with Jonas Ellison

Blinged-out Jesus

As I sit here for 20 minutes facing the doom of a blinking cursor, I look up and notice a gift... Rory has blinged out my little replica of the Rio de Janeiro Jesus statue here on my desk with a big rosey-pink plastic ring that she stores her chotchkies in. And he looks fabulous…

3 years ago · 8 likes · 1 comment · Jonas Ellison

Along the Way with Jonas Ellison

The Way

The first Jesus followers called their faith practice ‘The Way’. I love this. So the Christian faith is a Way. But what’s interesting is, it’s not a way towards something. It’s a way from something. This Jesus Way isn’t like a race to the finish line. Or the expedition of summiting a large mountain where when you get to the top, you’ve…

3 years ago · 5 likes · 1 comment · Jonas Ellison

Weekly Compendium

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