Gordon Fee Discusses Interpreting Revelation
… in this video, which has been all over the biblioblogosphere. Sorry, I don’t even remember where I first saw it.
… in this video, which has been all over the biblioblogosphere. Sorry, I don’t even remember where I first saw it.
You rebuke the proud, accursed ones,Who stagger away from your commands. As with each verses, there are lots of directions my mind goes with this, for example, what it means to be “accursed” and what, in particular, one might be proud of. But the direction my mind went was simply this: Pride goes before destruction…
David Ker has challenged me, amongst others, to say precisely how we would handle 2 Kings 2:23-24. I actually didn’t notice the challenge at first, though I’ve been following the series. I’m going to respond to the challenge by writing a homily. Most commonly I do not speak from a written text except when I’m…
The psalmist will praise God seven times a day. What are some other things that are repeated seven times in scripture?
This is a short note on some implications of evil based on a reading of Genesis 2:15-17, which is the first mention of anything even potentially out of order with God’s wonderful new world. I’ve heard hundreds of arguments in church, including the question of why God would put just one tree in the garden…
God’s word is everywhere. Will we perceive it?
I’m reading Frank J. Matera’s fine commentary on 2 Corinthians, and today was reading about Paul’s recitation of his history with the Corinthians as the basis for what he was about to teach them. I warn you that this post is only partially about 2 Corinthians. It is more broadly about the importance of seeing…