Friday, March 30, 2007

To what extent Genesis 3?

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<idle musing> Strange title for a post, isn't it? For those of you who aren't immediately familiar with the reference, Genesis...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Transformation?

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Dave Johnson, pastor of Church of the Open Door in the Minneapolis area, has a good post at Out of Ur So here’s my question: “What’s up wit...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Which agenda?

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I was wandering the blogosphere yesterday, and chanced upon this gem from David Alan Black: Evangelical culture warriors are in the news a...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Ea$ter

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I just got this in a marketing e-mail, and it makes me sick. Consumers to spend $14 billion for Easter. According to the National Retail Fed...

Free Books!

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Yep, that's right. Eisenbrauns will be giving away new books for free. What's the catch? Simple, subscribe to any one or more of the...

The plural of index

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Being the former Latin teacher that I am, I have a hard time with Anglicized plurals of Latin words. For me the plural of index is indices ...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007

I don't know how to title this...

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My son, Ryan, sent me this link yesterday. It is about a researcher who is doing CT scans on people praying to see what happens inside the...
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Friday, March 23, 2007

Confession

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Scot McKnight has a very good post on confession of sin . [Tippens in Pilgrim Heart ] begins with the obvious: for many of us (I’m in this ...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Tsumura's Creation and Destruction

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I recently finished Tsumura’s Creation and Destruction . I don’t think I have seen that much Akkadian and Ugaritic, along with Sumerian, in ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Talking head preaching

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<idle musing> I love that title! No, it’s not mine, although I wish it were. It actually comes from House Church Blog . He starts wit...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Catalogs

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<idle musing> Today I received a catalog from one of Eisenbrauns competitors; I'm sure you would recognize them. Anyway, I looked ...

Prophets or profits

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<idle musing> When I was in high school, I made a poster and hung it in my bedroom that said “Men love Profits, not Prophets.” Over th...
Monday, March 19, 2007

Conference

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Friday and Saturday I was at the regional Evangelical Theological Society meeting here in Warsaw. We don’t do many regional conferences; we ...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007

Sermon on the Mount

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<idle musing> Yesterday I posted a link to Ted Gossard’s series on Christians and War. But, that really is an offshoot of the Sermon...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

The citizenship of Christians

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Ted Gossard over at The Community of Jesus has been running a series entitled “Christians and War.” Here is a quote from part 3 We in Je...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Unappreciated workers

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Update: This is indeed an urban legend. Thanks to Neal for the legwork. Bev, one of our editors, just forwarded this to all Eisenbrauns empl...
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Good reflections on church

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I have been blessed of late reading the site The Assembling of the Church . Alan raises many good issues about what it means to be church. H...
Monday, March 12, 2007

A Prayer

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<idle musing> Out of Ur has an interview with Brian McLaren. In it he mentions a wonderful prayer, which I had never seen before. It ...
Friday, March 09, 2007

Good Theologians

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There is a very timely post over at The Heresy about the poor theology we have in comtemporary church life. Some people look down upon the...
Thursday, March 08, 2007

Self-promotion

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OK. I wasn't going to post this because it smacks too much of self-promotion, but I have had some people ask why I didn't. So, here ...
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