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Welcome to the podcast of Bright City Church, a community of faith in Raleigh-Durham, NC. If you would like to learn more about Bright City, or about how you can get involved, visit us at brightcitychurch.com
Join Pastor Sharon Miller for a special sermon inspired by her book Free of Me. In this message, you’ll hear some of her thoughts about why life is better when it’s not about you.


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Seeing By The Light
How can we understand God’s revelation to us?
Throughout the church’s history, theologians have often answered this question by appealing to a doctrine of illumination whereby the Holy Spirit shapes our knowledge and understanding of Scripture. Without denying the role of the Holy Spirit or the cognitive role of illumination, Ike Miller casts a broader vision of divine illumination and its role in the Christian life. In his constructive approach, Miller argues for a fully Trinitarian view of illumination that forms not just our intellect, but also appeals to the affections and encourages our ethical action.
In order to develop this theology of illumination, he explores both Augustine’s and Karl Barth’s readings of the Gospel and Epistles of John, including Barth’s previously untranslated lectures on the Gospel of John. In light of his careful study of both the Johannine literature and the theologies of two giants from Christian history, Miller lays out a doctrine of illumination whereby we are enabled to know the Father and participate in Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Racial unity does not mean
the obliteration of difference,
but the obliteration of dominance.
Language adapted from
Brad Braxton, “No Longer Slaves”
The issue this exposes is so much deeper than guns.
It exposes the fundamental problem with cultural Christianity in America/Christian Nationalism:
Preoccupation with self-preservation.
Lauren Boebert claims Jesus “didn’t have enough [AR-15s] to keep his government from killing him.”
This weekend @Ikefmiller took our oldest son to Chicago because that is where he was born, and he has not been back since he was a baby. Isaac wanted to see the hospital itself, so I got this photo this afternoon. ❤️
1 Corinthians 12 holds together the tension of 2 truths:
(1) Every person matters in the body of Christ, but (2) none of us are enough on our own.