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February 2004

February 03, 2004
Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company . New York: Hyperion, 2003. 163 pp. In...
February 02, 2004
As mentioned in an earlier post, Paul says that God works out salvation through the...
February 02, 2004
As mentioned in an earlier post, Paul says that God works out salvation through the...
February 01, 2004
Eucharistic Meditation, Feb 1: Luke 17:26-29 Jesus describes the coming of the Son of Man...
February 01, 2004
Exhortation for February 1: Jesus has many things to say about faith in our sermon...
February 01, 2004
God did not need to make the world. But once He’s made it, He cannot...
February 01, 2004
God did not need to make the world. But once He’s made it, He cannot...

January 2004

January 31, 2004
Jim Jordan suggests that justification as forgiveness of sins always also includes glorification. The “robe”...
January 31, 2004
The story of the 10 lepers in Luke 17 is not just about Jesus demonstrating...
January 30, 2004
Part of the Renaissance recovery of history was an emphasis on mutability and change. Few...
January 30, 2004
“Movies,” writes Brian Godawa, a Christian screenwriter, “may be about story, but those stories are...
January 29, 2004
Sermon outline for Feb 1: The Days of the Son of Man, Luke 17:11-37 INTRODUCTION...
January 28, 2004
Barth says that the conflict of faith and heresy is far more serious and important...
January 28, 2004
Henry Ansgar Kelly (pp. 139-140 of Chaucerian Tragedy ) makes this important historical comment at...
January 28, 2004
While I’m on that subject: I’ve often wondered about the etymology of the “f-word.” The...
January 28, 2004
While I’m on that subject: I’ve often wondered about the etymology of the “f-word.” The...
January 28, 2004
In his beautifully written tribute to the ancient Greeks. Thomas Cahill interprets Euripides’ Medea as...
January 28, 2004
In a book written in the late 1370s, the surgeon John Arderne prescribed “the Bible...
January 27, 2004
Barth defines faith as the “determination of human action by the being of the Church...
January 27, 2004
If, as Barth says, theology NEED not be part of the genus “science,” why has...
January 27, 2004
Barth quotes from J. Gerhard, who rejected the designation of theology as a science. One...
January 27, 2004
Jim Jordan has pointed out that the Greek word “oikoumene” is used in the NT...
January 26, 2004
A discussion of death in the prefall world led to this thought: What was Adam...
January 26, 2004
Jesus describes the activities of the unsuspecting preflood generation by listing four activities (Lk 17:27):...
January 26, 2004
There’s an intriguing review of the work of James Welch in the January 26 Weekly...
January 25, 2004
Exhortation for January 25: Jesus concluded the parable of the “unjust steward” by saying, “He...
January 25, 2004
Eucharistic meditation for January 25: Acts 2:41-47 In the book of Acts, we see the...
January 25, 2004
Baptismal meditation for January 25: Matthew 18:1-6 This passage in Matthew is parallel to the...
January 25, 2004
Becoming civilized is a matter of gaining control over the body, and this bodily control...
January 24, 2004
Peter Stuhlmacher interprets HILASTERION in Rom 3:25 as the KAPPORET of the ark of the...
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