Kris’ sister’s name is Pat and she is married to Bob; their daughter’s name is Kari. And Kari is a senior at the University of New Hampshire and, when we visit her, we like to stay at Hickory Pond Inn. Those are the facts. Here’s the story: |inline Read more
Everyone approximately my age, and the detail itself need not be mentioned, from Freeport Illinois knows the story of Midnight Mary. So, when I saw that James VanOosting published a novel, called Walking Mary, and built the central character on the Midnight Mary we all had come to know, I had to read it — even if it meant reading a novel. |inline Read more
Paul gives a long list of greetings in Romans 16:1-16. Wright suggests the reasons for such a list is because Paul doesn’t want to create new divisions — so he mentions all the house churches he knows. |inline Read more
For Bob Robinson — for healing, for renewed strength. Lord, hear our prayers. Read more
A blessing from the Celtic Book of Prayer: May the peace of the Lord Christ go with you, wherever He may send you. May He guide you through the wilderness, protect you through the storm. May He bring you home rejoicing at the wonders He has shown you. May He bring you home rejoicing once again into our doors. + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen Read more
This week in travels: I will be speaking Thursday and Friday at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. My subjects are the emerging movement and atonement. |inline Read more
We come to the end of Joseph Epstein, Friendship: An Expose. It’s been a good book to provoke thinking about friendship, and of course his prose is excellent. He’s not as funny here as he in his essays, which of his writings I prefer. Chp. 19 deals the cards of the “rules” of friendship, rules that bring to the surface the “art” of friendship. |inline Read more
William Mounce, Mounce’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (MED). For decades the lay person has been given Vine’s dictionary in order to see an overview of the meaning of words, but Mounce has raised the level: this study is based on the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words but with easy access through English. |inline Read more
Before Paul heads to Spain, Romans 15:25-29 tells us, he will return to Jerusalem with a bundle of money and gifts for the saints in Jerusalem. Wright sees the theology of Paul, as expressed in Romans (esp 14–15), in this collection for the saints. |inline Read more
Myth #7: Arminianism is not a theology of grace. Olson contends that the “material principle” of Arminianism is prevenient grace and that all of salvation is “wholly and entirely of God’s grace.” So there. |inline Read more
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