Friday, November 30, 2018

How to get along

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We need not express this in the same way as [Roger] Olson, but as I often tell my first-year theology classes, it is foundational to the theo...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Those neglected fathers of the church

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From Early Christian Readings of Genesis One , by Craig D. Allert—a book I picked up at the recent AAR/SBL Annual Meeting. Severa1 years a...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Back again

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I've been neglecting this blog terribly as of late. I can't promise that will change, but I will try to post a bit more regularly. P...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Theological Thinking

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“I am positioning myself within the broader stream of contemporary theological interpretation, approaching the biblical text within a canoni...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Words, words, everywhere are words

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They are taught that the power lies in the words, and if you get the words right, you are all right. Whereas, Paul says, the kingdom of God...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

What you've heard is wrong…

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The gospel is not the statement that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures (see 1 Cor. 15:3). The gospel is the statement tha...
Monday, November 12, 2018

It's still paganism

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We imagine that if we say certain words, they have power to bring good; if we say certain other words, they have the power to fend off the d...
Friday, November 09, 2018

Stability

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For years, I read writings on atheism and philosophical unbelief to the point that my head would ache. I would turn away and get on my knees...
Thursday, November 08, 2018

About all those church growth programs…

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To overcome the dangers facing a spiritually lethargic church is to discover true spiritual power. The power does not rest in outward form b...
Monday, November 05, 2018

Eyedropper Christians

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We have developed a mentality that simply cannot bring itself to attack a serious book. We have to be fed with an eyedropper, like a baby ro...
Friday, November 02, 2018

You're going to keep going until somebody gets hurt…

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Remember how your parents used to say that to you when you started horsing around with your siblings? We heard it, and we used it when our k...
Thursday, November 01, 2018

But that's not the way you're supposed to do it, Jesus!

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Jesus didn’t do what I would have done [when he arrived at Lazarus’s tomb]. He didn’t try to fix their emotional pain by telling them about ...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

What is a good book?

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"The measure of a good book is not whether it confirms and informs what one already suspected or believed. No, the measure of a good bo...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

How to influence the culture

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In a modern secular state that doesn’t honor God or follow his precepts, citizen believers must hold the political powerbrokers liable for t...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

Agreed!

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From Jesus Creed We condemn the attacks on innocent lives and the murder of Jews at the the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. The anti...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Tests, tests, everywhere are tests

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I don’t recommend using spiritual gift inventory tests for many reasons. First, the Bible doesn’t model that approach. Second, the process i...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

What have we lost?

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Before the global advent of Pentecostalism, the holiness movement emphasized that sanctification evidenced Spirit baptism. Accordingly, “Wal...
Friday, October 19, 2018

No hierarchy here!

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Contrary to what some believe, God has not fixed a spiritual hierarchy within the church that says that some Christians are more important t...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Give me your rich, your empowered, those desiring to control

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Oh, wait, that's not right, is it? It is supposed to be “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, ...

Character counts

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The basic point is that those who would speak for God should embody and display the qualities of God in themselves, and have a concern that ...