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The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything is unavailable, but you can change that!

When Brian McLaren began offering an alternative vision of Christian faith and life in books such as A New Kind of Christian and A Generous Orthodoxy, he ignited a firestorm of praise and condemnation that continues to spread across the religious landscape. To some religious conservatives, McLaren is a dangerous rebel without a doctrinally-correct cause. Some fundamentalist websites have even...

Here’s the scandal: not just that Jesus speaks of the new kingdom (although his image of the kingdom is unique and powerful), but that he says the kingdom is at hand , available to be grasped, knocking at the door—not just someday in the future, but here and now . Here and now! To a Jewish hearer in Jesus’ day, “the kingdom of God” may have been an accessible and evocative metaphor, but “at hand” would come as a shock and a contradiction to what everyone thought. Everyone thought that the kingdom
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