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Oktoberfest Biblical Studies Carnival Posted

Byhenry November 1, 2010

… at ξἐνος. Lots of interesting stuff to peruse.

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Interpreting the Bible VIII: Biblical Literalism, Attitude, and Avoidance
Byhenry May 12, 2009
This is a continuation of my series on interpreting the Bible. The first post in the series is Interpreting the Bible I: Obvious Exegesis, while the most recent one was Interpreting the Bible VII: Christians Contribute to Confusion. As a reminder, my starting point was a number of comments that suggested that those who take…
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Christianity | Religion

When I Dream of Christian Unity
Byhenry January 19, 2017
Everybody, well almost, says they want Christian unity. It’s one of those Sunday School answers. It’s like saying, “Everybody who loves Jesus raise your hand” in a Sunday School class. But when you raise your hand for Christian unity, what do you mean? What is your vision? I’ve been thinking of this as I hear…
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Christianity and Insanity
Byhenry March 26, 2011
A couple of days ago downtown I passed a church sign, and in the changeable portion of the sign it read: Revival! | Thursday Night | 7 pm. Now that’s a common enough sign on churches these days. Many churches have a tradition of an annual revival. At the same time each year an outside…
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Christian Apologetics | Christianity | Religion

Proving the Virgin Birth
Byhenry January 16, 2009
. . . or not. Bruce Alderman has a good post about Tipler’s efforts in this regard. (Peter Kirk has also discussed this, and both articles are well worth reading. Physicists seem to look at the world a bit differently than I do, and I often don’t understand what they’re up to, but for me…
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Christianity | Ecclesiology

Churches other than Roman Catholic are not True Churches
Byhenry July 10, 2007
I always knew I was a heretic: Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches. (From MSNBC.com) Well, actually, I never regarded the Catholic church and the pope as having…
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Christian Ministry | Christian Mission | Christianity | Discipleship | Religion | United Methodist Church

A UMC House Church
Byhenry August 6, 2016
One of the points I have tried to make in my series regarding the books Seven Marks of a New Testament Church, Thrive: Spiritual Habits of Transforming Congregations, and Transforming Acts: Acts of the Apostles as a 21st Century Gospel is that one can follow these “Jesus principles” of church leadership under many different formal…
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