Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Looking behind the curtain

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John helps his audiences to look at Rome and Roman imperialism especially through the lens of the Hebrew prophets, who had long ago spoken a...

For each and every

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It's been a while since I posted some Finney, so here's a good one: We are not to suppose that He died for the sum total of mankind...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

It depends on your viewpoint

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[According to John in Revelation] The emperors themselves are not pious figures or mediators of divine favor, as the public image of them de...
Monday, October 28, 2013

The center of our lives

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The vision of all creation centered in worship and obedient waiting upon God and God's Messiah invites us first of all into the experien...
Friday, October 25, 2013

The center of the universe

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John's visions begin at the center of John's universe, at the very throne of God (4:2). The way John unfolds hist vision of the cosm...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Repentance

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...sin has been so ingrained into our minds that we are unable to repent and have to repent even of the kind of repentance we bring before G...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

I wish...

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Discovered via Out of Ur : Minutes before the end of John MacArthur’s Strange Fire Conference, with attendees all together in the conventio...

A problem with forensic theories of the atonement

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...if Jesus is a substitute in detachment from us, who simply acts in our stead in an external, formal or forensic way, then his response ha...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Brains on a stick

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The human heart is so desperately wicked that it cunningly takes advantage of the hiatus between what we are and what we ought to be in orde...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Preconceptions and their impact on our findings

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Interesting post over at Black, White and Gray , a blog by some Christian sociologists: This gets us back to thinking about the institutio...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Is he mad?

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Fearful anxiety arises in the human heart when people cannot connect Jesus up in their faith or understanding with the ultimate Being of God...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

A hidden god?

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To claim that Jesus Christ is not God himself become man for us and our salvation, is equivalent to saying that God does not love us to the ...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The hinge

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Everything hinges upon the fact that he who became incarnate in Jesus Christ, he who mediates divine revelation and reconciliation to mankin...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

The root of it

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That is not, of course, what the world today wants to believe, any more than Jesus' contemporaries in Israel wanted to believe it, for t...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Offended by the light

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...the mediation of divine revelation through Israel has the effect not only of disclosing something of the nature of God but of disclosing ...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

ios 7 woes

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I've heard about this on the Internet, but nobody seems to know the answer: Ever since updating to IOS 7, my iPad 2 randomly locks up. I...

Renewal

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To be the bearer of divine revelation is to suffer, and not only to suffer but to be killed and made alive again, and not only to be made al...

Ouch!

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From Guy Muses's blog One of the most common questions I am asked in church planting training is: at what point do we start taking th...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Remember when

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Remember when Bonhoeffer wasn't an Evangelical? He isn't, of course; he was a liberal German Lutheran. But he's been "adop...

Book comments

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I read When a Nation Forgets God over the weekend. I went into it knowing the politics of the author (typical right-wing Evangelical), so ...