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Morgan Guyton has a very strong (and, in my view, entirely justified) reaction to the abuse of the term “biblical.”
…… In how many other “Bible” churches out there has “Biblical” become a code-word for an ideological platform that serves a purpose completely foreign to God’s mission but cherry-picks verses out of the Biblical text to justify itself?
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These are collected by Barnabas Piper. I have loved the Narnia series since I first read them, and that was as a young adult. C. S. Lewis has some really cogent thoughts. I especially like the point that one of the childish things one leaves off as one becomes a man is “a fear of childishness”!
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“We’re not going to bother with any of that marching crap,” said Jeffords to his troops. They were his because he was the only one in town with experience in combat, little as that was.
The villagers were lined up, sort of, in front of him. The idea was that he would prepare them to fight in the great war should …
The old man sat in his simple room looking at the bag of gold. “Use it however you want,” the rich young fellow had said. “I feel I need to give it to someone, and I have no idea who. I think you may know.”
The old man was renowned for his wisdom and his kindness. He had never sought attention …
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I’m linking to this post by Joel Hoffman not just for its content, which is indeed excellent, but also because I think it shows how to discuss translating a word from one language to another.
A couple of notes: 1) He’s discussing how to translate the word in a specific instance, not some general “what did this word really mean?” kind …
The regular Kindle prices are great, but Baker is offering selected commentaries free for one day on Jan. 9 (past, alas!), Jan. 16, and Jan 23. Today’s is on James. More at Evangelical Textual Criticism.
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He couldn’t be more than four or five years old, thought the headman. He really should know, as this was the son of the resident priest at the little shrine on the north edge of town. But he really couldn’t remember.
This is a work of fiction. All person’s, places, and events are products of the authors imagination.
Copyright © …
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(See also A Fresh Perspective I)
The church council didn’t know what to do. Well, that isn’t precisely true. Individually they did know what to do, but they didn’t all know the same thing, and no one plan of action was acceptable to all the members.
This is a work of fiction. All persons, places, and things are products of the …
(See also A Fresh Perspective – II.)
For years merchant trains had passed through the town by the falls on their way to the great north-south trade route to the west. The terrain was terrible, but alternate routes were even worse. One could go two or three days journey southward, past the end of the gorge below the falls, then cross …
Ken Schenck outlines his reasons for supporting complete equality in ministry, and he even uses the t-word — trajectory, as I did in my previous post. The arguments are related to those used by Kubo, but Schenck goes into some detail on the specific texts rather than just laying out the approach.
I think all of the referenced posts illustrate …
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Bruce Epperly, author of Philippians: A Participatory Study Guide, was interviewed today on WGTS. I’m listening to this right now and it’s great! He’s applying spiritual disciplines from the book to daily life.
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When it came time for third year Greek at Walla Walla College (now University), I had Dr. Sakae Kubo, who had just become dean of the School of Theology. Taking a Greek class with Dr. Kubo was an experience. I credit him with bringing my Greek to the level that allowed it to stick with me. He gave me a workout! …
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“We want you to recover the staff,” said the mayor.
“Why? Why not just make another one?” asked Jed. He was young and liked to do important things. Recovering a stick didn’t sound important.
“Make another staff?” asked the mayor incredulously.
This is a work of fiction. All persons places and events are products of my imagination. Copyright © 2011, Henry …
Dave Black suggests ten books for studying New Testament Greek during 2012. Four of these are on my regular list and a couple more are on my reading list. I might work on a list of my own when I’m back in Pensacola with my library. I’ve extracted the list onto The Jesus Paradigm since one can’t link to a …
Michael Patton has written a post arguing that inerrancy is not the linchpin of evangelicalism. This post should make me happy, and indeed I am glad that someone is making this claim. Further, Patton makes some very interesting points, including noting that we don’t throw anything else out completely just because of some error in detail, particularly if we’re dealing with …
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Mark Kellner (Adventist Review, Dec. 8, 2011) says he makes no apologies for believing the Bible. That’s great. Neither do I. (Jan M. Long responded to this at some greater length than I am on the Spectrum Magazine blog, to whom a tip of my hat.)
I don’t usually pick on my former denomination (I grew up and was educated …
We now p 
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There are a number of other packages as well, so check out the complete list on Energion Direct.
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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He stood looking at the hole in the ground. He could feel his hand trembling. He knew he was terrified and was embarrassed, even though there was nobody there to see.
A stairway going down.
That phrase was loaded with all the psychological freight of his own claustrophobia, heightened by his choice in literature, which tended to feature terrifying places, and …
Yes, my company has a Christmas package named for me, and it includes both of the books that are related to this blog, Tales from Jevlir: Oddballs and Stories of the Way, along with my non-fiction book Not Ashamed of the Gospel: Confessions of a Liberal Charismatic.
The From Publisher Henry Neufeld package is available for just $21.99 through January 3, …
I’m a strong advocate of the public reading of Scripture, so I’ve been following with interest the discussion that Tim Challies set off when he wrote about this ministry at his home church.
In his initial post he discussed how those who are to read scripture are trained and makes some suggestions for making one’s reading of scripture a constructive part …
I just got notice of this giveaway in e-mail. I may get a free gift for telling you, but it happens I already own what they’re giving away. Nonetheless, this looks like something worthwhile to enter, and besides, I like the NLT.
To quote:
Starting on November 29th until December 24th at the New Living Translation Facebook page we’re giving …
I actually didn’t know who Mike Licona was until a few weeks ago, but I’ve discovered that he is a Christian writer who is a strong supporter of the historicity of the resurrection and generally defends the historicity of the Bible.
Unfortunately for him, he recently suggested the possibility—just the possibility, mind you—that Matthew 27:51-53 (the raising of the dead saints) …
Lee at The Dubious Disciple generously and kindly reviewed my book When People Speak for God. In that review, he included the following sentence:
A discussion of inerrancy follows, and how Henry’s recognition of the Bible’s imperfections has not disturbed his reverence for God’s Word.
Now before I discuss this line, let me emphasize that this is not a critique …
The biblioblog rankings have been posted, with this blog at #18. Of course, the rankings are available live all the time these days, so I guess the end of month rankings are less important than they used to be, but still …. What surprised me, after not looking at the rankings for some time, was to find my blog at #18 …
Having just announced the release of my new book, Stories of the Way, I was interested to find a story about jury nullification, or more precisely advocacy of jury nullification today (HT: The Agitator).
One of the two new stories I wrote for this book (an additional 23 stories are from this blog), is The Juror’s Oath, and is intended to …
Since I began publishing some of my “thinking” short stories on this blog, a number of people have suggested that I publish a collection. Well, how can a writer an publisher ignore such suggestions? I’ve done it! I’m embedding the press release below. It should be shipping December 5, 2011, and that means you can have a copy by Christmas. We …
“The prince is coming here,” said the traveling merchant.
“How do you know this?” asked someone from the crowd.
“I saw him in a town far to the south, and members of his entourage told me he was heading this way. He plans to come all the way to the coast, and that will surely be right here.”
“How long will …
A great deal of the Bible comes to us in the form of stories, and even the parts filled with propositions have their background in the story of God’s action in history. I believe this is central to the way we should read and apply scripture, and thus I am delighted to have the opportunity to review the book Learning God’s Story …
At the beginning of the month I wrote a post about pointing texts at yourself first. I think it’s important to do so both in order to avoid misinterpretation or unbalanced emphasis, but also because in communicating the message you will do better in expressing something that has convicted you first. The temptation, of course, is to major on the texts …
Dave Black is offering a workshop on Dec. 4, 2011, and he’s posted a reading list on his blog. I extracted the list and posted it on The Jesus Paradigm, since Dave’s blog doesn’t allow for linking to a specific post.
Why am I making a point of a reading list? There are a number of very good things to read …
Well, no, I don’t think so, but in one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how not to argue, that is a view attributed to others by writer Andrew Wilson on the New Frontiers Theology Matters blog (HT: 42).
Within evangelicalism, four main lines of interpretation can be discerned. (Outside of evangelicalism, the response is fairly simple – Paul was …
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Welcome to the November 16, 2011 edition of the Christian Carnival. I have generally kept the comments provided by the authors, but have added a few notes of my own. As usual, I throw around a few random awards.
I would remind participants that blog posts are supposed to be within …
Expect the Christian Carnival to be posted in the evening due to my schedule, which is heavily weighted toward the early hours tomorrow.
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“I don’t know why it isn’t working.”
The old man looked over at the young pastor. He saw a well-dressed young man, with an earnest but very troubled expression.
“So that’s what you wanted to talk to me about? It isn’t working?” he asked.
“Right. It just isn’t working, and I don’t know why. I’ve done everything I know, and I …
The November 9, 2011 Christian Carnival has been posted at Ichthus77. Check out this variety of posts from the Christian blogosphere.
Next week’s carnival will appear here at the Jevlir Caravansary on November 16. Keep your eyes open and submit your posts.
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One recommendation I make for Bible study is simple: Look for what speaks to, and yes convicts, you first. It’s very easy to read the Bible and find all the things that other people ought—or ought not—to do. This results in our practice of having lists of “clean” sins and “dirty” sins.
Clean sins are the ones I’m personally tempted to. …
The morning after the hangings were displayed to the whole system, Tad was still concentrating on the logical problems with his situation. Here they were on a planet with effectively no defense, but nobody really seemed to notice. He remembered that he had always assumed the real fighting was somewhere else, yet he thought he would have gotten suspicious given a …
It all started with the resolution passed by the town council.
No, perhaps not. That might be giving it too much weight. It really started when Tomas got stinking drunk that evening. But since the council resolution comes into it, we’ll just have to start there.
It was passed unanimously, and was short and to the point.
Resolved, that some …
In my book When People Speak for God I used the story of the one-ended telephone cord. Edward Vick makes the same point in much more profound language than I used.
But even should someone intend to make known to me what I would otherwise never come to discover by myself, I shall not in fact know it unless I respond. …
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