Biblical Studies Carnival #45 Posted
… at The Golden Rule, Bible Theme Park edition.Ā Lots of good stuff here, and despite my usual delinquency in submitting anything, I got a link in there.
… at The Golden Rule, Bible Theme Park edition.Ā Lots of good stuff here, and despite my usual delinquency in submitting anything, I got a link in there.
OK, these are not that closely related, but the Christian Carnival will appear here tomorrow, and it will be evening before it appears. I will announce the winner of the Mosaic Bible giveaway at the same time.
That’s a fairly ambitious title I gave myself, but the content is a bit less ambitious. When I found that I’d be teaching from Philippians 2 in Sunday School, I commented that if someone couldn’t teach a class from Philippians 2:5-11, they should just give up teaching. That’s probably a bit harsh, but the passage…
… This! This is Discipling from The Foursquare Church on Vimeo. (HT: Dave Black Online)
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and I’m never one to shrink from producing a thousand words–or ten! I wonder what a video is worth? A certain number of words per frame? In any case, I wrote earlier about God being mocked in the campaign and I even commented on how “In…
In preparing for my Sunday School lesson tomorrow I read some very high sounding words about settling for less: pleasure rather than joy, vengeance rather than justice, sentiment rather than beauty, and so forth. The source was N. T. Wright, quoted in the introduction to theĀ Cokesbury Adult Bible Studies Uniform Series for the Summer…
I am continually annoyed when Christians claim to be persecuted in this country. I know that we are, from time to time, inconvenienced and troubled, but it seems to me that calling ourselves persecuted simply devalues the term. I’ve lived where persecution was a reality, as in fleeing ahead of someone intent on killing you…