Friday, August 31, 2007

Consumer Church

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There is a nice bit of advice about house church/small group gatherings over at The House Church Blog . In six short points he sums up what...
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Resurrection!

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“A biblical theory of atonement does not stop at the cross, even if it views the incarnate life of Jesus and everything else through the pie...
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Thursday, August 30, 2007

"in Christ"

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“To say that Jesus is the second Adam ushers us directly to the importance of union with Christ . If ‘in’ Adam we sin and die, so ‘in’ Chris...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Round and round and round and round and...

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We recently got a shipment of Illustrated Wall Maps of the Bible from Carta. Unfortunately, these come unassembled :( So, today, 7 or 8 of ...
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What is evil?

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“He [Augustine] contends that good things can be corrupted, which leads him to this arresting conclusion: ‘I sought to know what wickedness ...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

One-trick pony?

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“What I hear in those who think penal substitution is the “center” of the atonement is this: I have a bag of [golf] clubs but I like to play...
Monday, August 27, 2007

Growing in Grace

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A while back I ran across a post that nicely highlights my own thinking about works versus grace I've come to understand that this is ...
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Atonement metaphors

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“Atonement language includes several evocative metaphors: there is a sacrificial metaphor (offering), and a legal metaphor (justification), ...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Book Sale

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Are you an SBL member? If so, you received an e-mail way back on August 8 with a code good for 25% off on Brill titles. Did you know that co...
Wednesday, August 22, 2007

It's August!

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It is certainly August here in Indiana. Yesterday afternoon, when I went for my bike ride, I came back covered with black gnats. I looked li...
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Heaven, or earth?

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Both! Says Scot McKnight ...we need to observe that biblical language of eternity does not justify passivity on earth; a biblical vision of ...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Atonement for whom?

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“It would be simplistic and colonizing to suggest that power determines everything, but we should be alert to the observation that the power...
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Monday, August 20, 2007

Marketing, or lying?

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When does marketing become outright lying? Well, how about some background information first, rather than jumping in medias res ...a few wee...

Why?

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It’s been a while since I linked to him, but Alan over at The Assembling of the Church has a very good series of questions that should be ...
Friday, August 17, 2007

Two more new books

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Yesterday at about this time I walked into the warehouse, as usual, to peruse the new arrivals. I spotted a box from Hendrickson and tried n...

New book

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A new book crossed my desk late last week, but I didn't have time to start it until Wednesday. Once I did start it, I had a hard time pu...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Foreordained, or predestined?

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"In spite of the widespread scholarly acknowledgment that Arminians do believe in predestination, popular Christian opinion has become ...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

A broken heart

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"In all sorts of words and nuances the prophets proclaim God's anger to be near. There aim is that the people may escape from it. T...
Monday, August 13, 2007

But does it mean anything?

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OK, I suppose I should have posted the transliteration and translation for the t-shirt ...it is the first two lines of Enuma Elish: e-n...
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Prevenient grace

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“A better illustration using water would be a man who has fallen into a pit and is unconscious. God calls to the man and offers help. The ma...