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The second half of chp 5 in Chris Wright, The Mission of God, explores how God’s confrontation with idolatry shapes mission. Some very good ideas here. |inline Read more
The second half of chp 5 in Chris Wright, The Mission of God, explores how God’s confrontation with idolatry shapes mission. Some very good ideas here. |inline Read more
Some of you know that a couple weeks back Kris and I were rear-ended and our car was badly damaged. We thought for sure it would be totaled, but our insurance company thought it was salvageable — grunts and moans deleted. At that time, we opened up this blog for advice about what car to consider, and the information flowed. One of the cars we asked about was a Prius … |inline Read more
2 Corinthians 5 fits in many ways with the concerns of the re-made spiritual body of 1 Corinthains 15. So here is our text for today: |inline Read more
The first question Ken Bain discusses in his book, What the Best College Teachers Do, is “what do good teachers know about how we learn?” |inline Read more
I don’t know if you heard this, but The Bible Experience — the audio recording of the Bible by Hollywood African Americans — won a huge award. (It is on Audio DVD and MP3.) It has won the 2007 Audio Book of the Year, beating out JK Rowling! Some of you have this, and I wonder what you think of it. I’ve listened to several books and love it. How many of you have listened to Denzel and his wife... Read more
Paul’s next reference to heaven is 1 Cor 8:5, and it speaks of false gods whether in heaven or on earth, and it doesn’t do much for this discussion. But 1 Cor 15:47 does: |inline Read more
Brian Rosner’s chp in The Consolations of Theology about disappointment and Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a model of showing how the theology of a given theologian consoles in the midst of emotional trauma. |inline Read more
I’ve got it made. All I have to get ready for school are my syllabi, fill my fountain pen with ink, put a few things in my book bag, and off to school I go. But, I was thinking about all the school supplies we used to buy when I saw this link on Amazon. Now here’s my story… |inline Read more
Romans 10:6 is not an easy text to understand. Here it is in context: |inline Read more
Those who concentrate on the New Testament mostly ignore idolatry; those who concentrate on the Old Testament face it daily. Chris Wright’s 5th chp in his book The Mission of God faces idolatry as he maps the missional focus of the Bible. And this chp is worth the price of the book. |inline Read more
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