Gordon Fee Discusses Interpreting Revelation

Byhenry August 6, 2010

… in this video, which has been all over the biblioblogosphere. Sorry, I don’t even remember where I first saw it.

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Book Notes: Roetzel on 2 Corinthians

Byhenry March 13, 2010

I’ve given up the enterprise of reading this book through from cover to cover, so these notes are based on using it as reference while I’m reading 2 Corinthians itself. The fact is that I found the book impossible to read straight through. As I mentioned previously in using it as a comparison to Matera’s…

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Psalm 119:8 – I’m Going to Do It; Help!

Byhenry December 1, 2024November 30, 2024

I will observe your statues.Don’t completely forsake me! Sometime we’re so busy looking for the really holy things and the absolutely correct commands in scripture that we fail to see the human element. But to miss that human element really misses much of the message of scripture. Scripture speaks in the way it developed and…

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Reconciling the Gospel Genealogies

Byhenry December 21, 2009

There are generally two reactions I hear to this in Sunday School classes and church pews–it’s either fascination, as if the genealogies make or break the Bible or complete indifference, as in “who cares?” Both reactions miss the point. Matthew and Luke are each making a point, and they are making it in a way…

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Book Notes – Revelation: The Way It Happened

Byhenry May 13, 2011

When I encountered Lee Harmon in cyberspace, or more precisely he encountered me, and I learned that he’d written a book about Revelation, I was immediately hooked. Besides, Revelation – The Way it Happened is such an interesting and suggestive title. Let me warn you that, as usual, this will be less a review and…

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No Bible Study Tonight

Byhenry November 10, 2016

I will not be continuing my Bible study on Perspectives on Paul tonight, but will resume next Thursday night. A variety of things have come together to make it impossible to accomplish. Next week we will be starting lesson #2 of Dr. Bruce Epperly’s book Galatians: A Participatory Study Guide, “Chosen by God.” The Scripture…

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Finally Some Cover on Multiple Reading!

Byhenry November 17, 2006

Joe Carter at the evangelical outpost has written a post titled How to Change Your Mind. I’m not going to steal the thunder of his post, other than to say that it deals with reading passages multiple times. I have long been recommending reading a book of the Bible, or any passage you are about…