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The American Patriot Bible is a Bestseller!
ByhenryI gave my first impressions of this Bible last year. Â You can probably guess my viewpoint from the title: Â Another Reason to Hate Study Bibles. Today John Byron of The Biblical World comments on the American Patriot Bible reaching bestseller status on Amazon.com. Â With the number of Americans these days who are effectively equating being…
First Century Church – Wanting and Doing
ByhenryMy wife said some important things in her devotional yesterday, First Century Church Wanted. If I might summarize, many of us want what the early church had, but we don’t want to do what the early church did.
No Apologies for Believing the Bible
ByhenryMark 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…
Theodicy and Politics
ByhenryThis is another brief thought. As I was thinking about politics I also considered some of the questions that come up in theodicy. In politics, many of us look for protection from risk, from the consequences of our own actions. It seems to me that in theodicy many people prevent “consequences” as an example of…
Update on Driscoll Video
ByhenryA couple of updates on this controversy. I may have spoken too soon on the matter of the duties of the conference hosts. It appears that people may have gotten the videos there. I’m still not sure precisely what happened, so I will still maintain that handing out the video would be the right thing…
Working in your Call
ByhenryAnd YHWH spoke to the fish, and it spit Jonah up on dry land. Then YHWH’s word came to Jonah a second time, saying, “Get up! Go to Nineveh! . . . ” — Jonah 2:11-3:2a I knew a man who almost got a law degree, but dropped out during the last year of law…