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Byhenry September 13, 2012

I want to thank UM Insight for publishing a post from this blog, Defensive Christianity. It’s encouraging to have a post recognized and republished, and I appreciate what they do for the United Methodist Church.

Books | Christianity

Can Liberal and Conservative Christians Meet Anywhere?
Byhenry September 20, 2014
One of my goals as a publisher is to see people from various streams of Christianity talk to one another and learn from one another. I used the labels “liberal,” “charismatic,” and “evangelical” in the home video I made early in the history of my publishing company, Energion Publications. I’m embedding it here for those…
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Atonement | Bible Commentary | Bible Study | Christianity | Publishing | Soteriology

Bloody Sacrifices and Salvation
Byhenry January 26, 2017
One of the problems with understanding biblical talk about salvation is that we do not live with a sacrificial system. For many Christians, the whole idea of sacrifices is that someone sinned and a bloody sacrifice was required for atonement. Christians believe that because of one bloody sacrifice, that of Jesus on the cross, no…
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Bible Study Method | Christianity

Can One Be a Bibleist?
Byhenry February 2, 2010
I received a link to the following video in a tweet from @TheActiveWord. It seems so closely related to my last post that I’d include it here: There are several things I agree with here. First, I do believe that the Bible has the sovereignty of God and the responsibility (of which some sort of…
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Bible Study | Biblical Inerrancy | Christianity

Does the Bible Condone Slavery?
Byhenry March 25, 2006
Ed Brayton, on his blog Dispatches from the Culture Wars, started a bit of an exchange over slavery and the Bible with his post Slavery and the Bible, which was answered over on In The Agora by Eric Seymour in his post Does the Bible condone slavery?. Just so you have the whole story, Ed…
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Christianity | Religion

Finding and Protecting the Essentials
Byhenry March 13, 2010
I’ve written several times before about looking for the essentials of the Christian faith, most recently in my discussion of what a successful United Methodist Church would look like. I maintain that it is important to identify what are essentials, and to have a well-selected set that will provide identity for an organization. Of course,…
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Christian Ministry | Christianity

A Snake-Handling Baptist?
Byhenry January 21, 2010
Dave Black posts a picture of his colleague Alvin Reid (look for 6:56 AM, Thursday, January 21), who appears with Dave’s favorite reptile (and I assume Alvin’s as well, but what do I know?) It looks to me like the Baptists are descending into snake handling. Who could have predicted that? Actually, the occasion is…
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