By Henry Neufeld See You in Bible Class says the MSNBC/Newsweek headline on a story that informs us that the state of Georgia has decided that having a Bible class is a critical part of the public school curriculum for their state. They’re going to mandate that it be added. The story is headed by the picture [...]
By Henry Neufeld Many of the issues of Biblical criticism are illustrated in these four chapters from the book of Isaiah. The book of Isaiah as a whole is fertile ground for such study, but one has to take a reasonable sized bite for an illustration. What I want to do with these chapters is discuss how [...]
By Henry Neufeld I’ve just run through another commentary on Daniel, in this case the Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Volume 7, section on Daniel, by Gleason Archer. (See my notes on this commentary.)
You can review my more detailed view in those notes, but I would simply state that this is one of two carefully conservative, scholarly commentaries [...]
By Henry Neufeld My early morning reading brought two things together that led me to this post. The first was a blog entry by Shane Raynor on The Wesley Blog, titled What’s Missing from Our Christianity?. In it Shane makes a very important point:
Many of us intellectually believe all the right stuff. Or at least [...]
By Henry Neufeld In my earlier post on the Biblical Doctrine of Creation, my second element of a Biblical doctrine of creation was that God creates by simple command, in other words, God’s word and will is reality.
This is commonly used as an argument against theistic evolution, and even in some cases against old earth creationism. [...]
By Henry Neufeld I was reading the entry The Ignorant Credulity of Creationists on Dispatches from the Culture Wars, where Ed Brayton quotes the following from a creationist response to Tiktaalic roseae, and then comments:
. . . or those who are more of a six-day creationist stripe, the finding poses no threat either. [...]
By Henry Neufeld Read the story of Belshazzar’s feast in Daniel 5.
The stories of the book of Daniel all have something to do with worship. Often we read them as unconnected stories about Daniel and his friends, but they have a common theme. Daniel 1 shows us the faithfulness of Daniel and his friends to their [...]
By Henry Neufeld When I was in the U. S. Air Force, I had to attend a human relations training program. The instructor was enlisted, but very proudly informed us of his two master’s level degrees. During the course of his presentation he brought up a particular bumper sticker, which happened to be one I had on [...]
By Henry Neufeld From the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune: Why is the sky blue? Facts you should know.
The quiz doesn’t provide scoring, but the answers are at the end. Bar that I must say I mentally fudged the amount of water (thinking “about 3/4″ instead of the precise 71%), and the “sky is blue question” when I [...]
By Henry Neufeld Is there a resurrection in your future? In your near future?
Often concerned Christians complain about the pagan background of Easter, and such practices as Easter eggs, bunny rabbits, and all the signs of spring. Pagan religions in many countries have celebrated spring and the new life that it represents. Fall and spring festivals [...]
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Asides Repelling Young People (2012/2/20) “So, in a spirit of Christian solidarity, I decided to help these churches expel young people once and for all.” This is too good! Read the rest. ()
Cooperative Missions (2012/2/20) Dave Black wants us to do church planting cooperatively. We should! ()
February 15 Christian Carnival Posted (2012/2/17) … at Bible Archive. ()
Pete Enns on the Historical Adam (2012/2/15) He continues the discussion with Kevin DeYoung. I’m glad to see this discussion continue. ()
February 8, 2012 Christian Carnival Posted (2012/2/9) … at Other Food. Thanks to Violet for hosting the carnival! ()
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