Friday, December 31, 2010

A virtual cafeteria of gods

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I'm in a new book now, God in New Testament Theology by Larry Hurtado. Here's the first excerpt. I'm not sure how much I will b...

Musings at the end of a year

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Yesterday we had a 3.8 earthquake (downgraded from 4.2); today we had a thunderstorm and it is 50º F. What's going on? Simple; I'm b...
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Thursday, December 30, 2010

The real issue

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“'First,' Gordon [Cosby] says, 'a person must come to that place where he knows that the real issue is always an internal one....
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

How-to versus who

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“...we often look for leadership training that focuses on skills development. The questions asked in such training always focuses on the how...
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Join the flat-earth society

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Robin Parry has a nice thought about cosmology today: I want to say that God did not reveal himself in spite of the ancient cosmology but ...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

We're back

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We just got back from 2-plus weeks with our kids. The drive up was in the middle of the biggest snow storm in December's Minnesota histo...

No easy answers

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“The nature of injustice in neighborhoods varies from one place to the next. It is easy to make this about poor neighborhoods and rich nei...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Business is not missional

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“After working with churches for nearly two decades, I have seen one consistent problem with people actually doing this practice. Some of th...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Vacation

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We are leaving today and won't be back until December 27. I don't know if I will have Internet access consistently enough to post or...
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The mission field

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"Our mission field is ripe for God's people to live consistently with one another in a certain way and in a certain place. We no lo...
Thursday, December 09, 2010

The neighborhood

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"When we practice presence in the neighborhood, we give people the opportunity to feel the life of the gospel and not just hear it. If...
Wednesday, December 08, 2010

New Interpreter's Dictionary on sale!

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Here it is the 8th of December already, and I haven't mentioned the Eisenbrauns December sale! Good thing this isn't an official Eis...
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Kids in small groups

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"Oftentimes, group members see the children in a way that is counterproductive. Some of these ways include these false beliefs: * Kids ...
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This is rare

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It is very rare that I agree with anything Al Mohler says. But, I do agree with him about yoga. Our of Ur has a nice post summarizing the ...
Tuesday, December 07, 2010

As the snow blows

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Time for a garden update, as the snow flies and the temperature hovers around 20º F. Friday night I got home, after a cold, snowy ride, and ...

Leisure time

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“Leisure rest differs from Sabbath rest. In leisure rest we escape from the world into mindless numbness. We go to the theatre to escape the...
Monday, December 06, 2010

Monday's quotation

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"It is okay to talk about spiritual things in the church. We can talk about prayer, living morally upright, 'getting saved,' Go...
Friday, December 03, 2010

More thoughts on the gods

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About 2 weeks ago, I posted some thoughts on the gods as represented in ancient literature. After discussing it further with Debbie (my wi...
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Quiet

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"In many ways we live in a culture in which people are afraid to be truly alone, because in such an experience, we don't like what ...

Bookselling in perspective

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I ran across this in my wanderings today: According to Orwell, "the real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life ...