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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Psalm 119:80 – Blameless
Byhenry February 11, 2025February 10, 2025
Let my heart be steadfast in your statutesso I will not be put to shame. If you immerse yourself in this Psalm, you’ll lose any sense of boastfulness and self-sufficiency. There are claims before God to being a commandment keeper, but they are well-balanced by those passages that ask the Lord to accomplish this work….
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Word Study Dangers: The Process
Byhenry February 8, 2007
Several years ago I was in an online chat on religion, and one of the other members discovered that I read Hebrew. I actually forget how he accomplished it; that wasn’t the topic and I didn’t tell him. In any case, he said, “Wow! You read Hebrew!” I acknowledged that I do. “I’ve been wanting…
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No Meaning without Interpretation
Byhenry July 10, 2008
You know, that title is so much worse than the one I’m going to link to — The Bible doesn’t say. That makes the point. I frequently say that one can only call something “Biblical” when speaking from within a particular interpretive framework, which completely ruins the whole “Biblical” thing. In my experience the use…
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How to Change Your Mind – Again
Byhenry August 9, 2007
Joe Carter has reposted his entry from last November, titled How to Change Your Mind. I liked it then and I still like it now, so I’m going to link to it again. I use some similar methods from time to time. My mother taught me reading 12 times, which was often part of memorization….
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Out of Context Comfort
Byhenry August 26, 2011
When I was in college studying Biblical Languages, my mother told me of an encounter with a biblical scholar who had corrected her somewhat forcefully on the use of a text. She had claimed Isaiah 49:25, “… I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children” and done so…
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10 Psalms Not Heard (much) in Modern Worship
Byhenry February 21, 2008
Don has a post titles 10 Tough Psalms for Worship Songs that deserves some serious thinking. I relate it to my recent post Psalm 95 and 81: Interrupting Praise with Prophecy?. Do we tend to censor the more challenging material in our worship?
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