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Father-Daughter Blogging …

Byhenry December 29, 2010

John Meunier and his daughter are blogging through the book Almost Christian. It looks like it will be worth reading.

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Which Paradigm to Check
Byhenry September 3, 2007
David Lang has written an interesting post at Better Bibles dealing with the complementarian/egalitarian debate. Readers of this blog will realize that I’m not terribly moderate on this particular issue–I’m passionately egalitarian. David does make a good point about polarizing arguments, however: . . . In the process of trying to persuade those who disagree…
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Coolness and Complacency
Byhenry November 17, 2008
OK, I’m going to try for three short notes at a time. In this case I’m helped by Dave Warnock, who already wrote on the topic. It seems that Adrian Warnock doesn’t like people to be “cool-headed” about the atonement. He says: To be honest, when I heard this book was going to be cool-headed…
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They’re Bad so We’re Good
Byhenry May 12, 2016
Recent political discourse reminds me of the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector: 9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee,…
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A Couple of Links on the Purpose of the Church
Byhenry February 8, 2011
A few days ago I posted a quote on the purpose of the church, particularly church growth, and between the comments to that post, Twitter, and my RSS reader, I’ve found a few to add to it. First, Jimmy Davis, a former student (for one year of Hebrew) and now an associate pastor in…
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An Example of Checking Interpretation
Byhenry September 3, 2008
One of the things I suggest that people do to check their Biblical interpretations is to apply the same process they have just used to another passage on another issue. You ask the question, “Would my process of interpretation work on more than one passage or is it an ad hoc method used to get…
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Why I Stopped Carrying My Greek NT to Church and then Started Again
Byhenry March 5, 2020
There’s an article on For the Church, in which Dr. Andrew King tells students: “Don’t Take Your Greek or Hebrew Bible to Corporate Worship.” There are a number of good points in the article, such as the note that if you are not comfortable with the languages, working on them during a sermon may be…
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