Wednesday, December 03, 2014

That huge self-help section in the bookstore

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And because we’re all too aware that our self needs help, we jump on this misery merry-go-round and buy book after book, hoping for better r...

Thought for the day

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There is always a reasonable alternative to faith!— The Mystery of Godliness , page 28

Entertaining churches

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The “entertainment” model of church was largely adopted in the 1980s and ‘90s, and while it alleviated some of our boredom for a couple of h...

Blind leading the blind

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If he thinks his own theorizing and speculating are going to bring him to any right knowledge on the subject of religion, he knows nothing a...
Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Loyalties

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You are not committed to a church, or to a denomination, or to an organization; as a missionary you are not committed to a Mission Board nor...

Work, work, and what for?

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You have no doubt heard of the “Protestant work ethic.” Ephesians 4:28 is the “Christian work ethic.” We work not just to meet our own needs...

But I'm right!

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May God grant that I do not condemn anyone, nor say that I alone am saved. But I prefer to die rather than violate my conscience by defectin...

Thought for a windy Tuesday

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O that I could convince the whole church that they need no other help but Christ, and that they would come at once to Christ for all they wa...
Monday, December 01, 2014

The current corporate model

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In all of Paul’s letters to the churches, he speaks to the “brethren”—a term that includes both brothers and sisters in Christ. Paul uses th...

Wisdom from the past

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The pastor must keep careful watch over himself, in case the craving to be popular assaults him. As he studies to understand spiritual thing...

Finney for a Monday

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When will you learn the first lesson in religion, that you have no help in yourselves without Christ, and that all your exertions without Ch...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Thought for the day

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"I would much prefer the days of our beginnings to what we have now. There wasn't anybody clamoring to do what we did, or what ...

The mysteries

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Contrary to what many moderns seem to think, there was no esoteric wisdom to be found in the ancient Mysteries, no Da Vinci Code to be decip...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

The other ones

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I almost forgot...here are the other three books: Creation and Chaos A Reconsideration of Hermann Gunkel's Chaoskampf Hypothesis Ed...

Curses in the ancient world

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I just received a few books from Eisenbrauns (thanks, Jim!), including Cursed Are You! . I was still working at Eisenbrauns when I first hea...

Random thoughts on the Jesus Movement

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Having just finished the book God's Forever Family put me in a reminiscent mood. You might find various snatches of memories popping up...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Miscellaneous thoughts

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Some good thoughts on "Black" Friday from Brian Zahnd Coming out of Thanksgiving we should be headed for the mystery of Advent— ...

Food for thought

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The Lord Jesus Christ refused to be committed to the parochial needs of His own day and generation; He was not committed to the political si...

Thought for a Friday in November

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The Christian Scriptures are so deep that, even if I studied them to the exclusion of all else, from early childhood to worn-out old age, wi...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

A very good book

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I've been reading a good history of the Jesus People Movement, God's Forever Family . Good stuff. I was saved through the Jesus Move...