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From Chicago Tribune: U.S. citizens Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller who were being held in detention by North Korea have been released and are on their way back to the United States, U.S. officials said Saturday morning. Read more
From Chicago Tribune: U.S. citizens Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller who were being held in detention by North Korea have been released and are on their way back to the United States, U.S. officials said Saturday morning. Read more
Michael Horton is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary (California). His book, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World frames the following conversation. David George Moore conducted the interview. Dave blogs at www.twocities.org. Moore: What made you pick up the pen and decide to tackle a book on this subject? Horton: I was motivated by a general sense, over many years of being part of and observing a long string of movements... Read more
I’ve enjoyed five weeks in a row of teaching at Northern and also, in the middle of each week, on the road about Kingdom Conspiracy so I’m just plain grateful I, with Kris’ help of course, we got these meanderings up each week. So here goes… And, by the way, next Saturday we have a special Kingdom Conspiracy event at Northern Seminary sponsored by Missio Alliance. I’m so grateful to JR Rozko for his behind-the-call-of-duty while-doing-his-doctorate and being-a-dad-and-husband to organize this event at... Read more
From Arise, with Christians for Biblical Equality: A good example of what you can find in their resources and you can think about subscribing to Mutuality or the Priscilla Papers: I had such a hard time finding myself in Scripture. I attended Christian schools where the resources for learning about the Bible were numerous. We played Bible memorization games and put on plays starring “Psalty the Songbook.” We all possessed illustrated Bibles and every year, we received a Christian religion... Read more
No Magic Book, by John Frye Because the Bible is a supernatural book does not mean it is a magic book. The Bible is supernatural in that God the Creator chose to speak to the human race in its own language—human speech and writing, using as his agents the various authors of the Bible books over a span of centuries. And this post will not quibble about the nature of inspiration and the formation of the canon. The point is... Read more
The one and only prayer book of the Bible is the Book of Psalms but it does not begin with a prayer but with a meditation, what Tim Keller calls “a meditation on meditation” (Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, 146). That is, Psalm 1 is a “pre-prayer act” of recollection. We cannot jump from business to prayer or from academic theory into prayer, but we need he says “middle ground,” that is, meditation on Scripture. This kind of... Read more
From Gerhard Lohfink: Jesus is being rendered irrelevant nowadays in many ways. It happens, for example, when Jesus is appraised as a somewhat unusual rabbi or a prophet, certainly one mighty in word and deed, but ultimately just one of the many prophets throughout history. It happens when posters in Augsburg invite people to journey through the ages and the religions: “We will meet Rama, Krishna, Buddha, and Jesus, and sing their names. Circle dances from the Sufi tradition will... Read more
In the last post on Iain Provan’s new book Seriously Dangerous Religion we looked at Genesis 3, a story that Provan sees as relating the embrace of evil by humans created in the image of God. This embrace of evil had consequences for Adam and Eve and for their descendants. But this raises an important question – what are we to do about human evil and suffering? About poverty and want? What is the biblical response in the pages of... Read more
Let’s agree with a general observation: evangelicals churches tend toward Republican politics while the mainline churches tend toward Democrat politics. I see three problems with this widespread reality in the American church, and I’m sure you can add to this brief discussion of other problems: What impacts of politicizing the church do you encounter? First, by politicizing a local church that same local church dramatically decreases its chance of gospeling, teaching, and fellowshipping with those of the other political persuasion. It... Read more
Ministry in North America requires both preparation and experience and increasing number of ministers are deeply involved in experience and finding it nearly impossible to attend seminary full-time. A seminary curriculum focuses on the scope of the minister’s calling, from biblical and theological to practical and homiletical studies, but not all ministers need as intense preparation for each facet of ministry. Some focus on teaching while others focus on the more personal and formative dimensions of ministry. The MANT seeks... Read more
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