Is the Church Dead?

Byhenry October 11, 2012

This blogger thinks so. I think he has a point.

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Somewhat of a Calvinist?
Byhenry July 15, 2009
Having located a Peter Kirk approved quiz, Testing Your C-Factor, I decided I really must take it. The results? I’m “somewhat of a Calvinist.” Really? I do like the part about being “slightly hedonistic.” Test your C-Factor: 53% You are somewhat of a Calvinist. Some of your points of view make you look like a…
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Resuming Perspectives on Paul: Starting the New Year
Byhenry January 5, 2017
I’ll review a bit of our material and where we are and then proceed with Lesson 2 of Bruce Epperly’s book, Galatians: A Participatory Study Guide. As I’ll be talking a bit about interpretation, let me also embed my chat with Elgin Hushbeck, Jr. from Tuesday night (01/03/2017).
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What Have They Seen in Your House?
Byhenry September 19, 2016
Yesterday the Scripture for my Sunday School class was Isaiah 40:21-31. The daily readings in the student guide included the first 20 verses of the chapter as well. Those acquainted with critical scholarship on the book of Isaiah recognize this as the opening of 2nd Isaiah, chapters 40-55. At first I was going to avoid…
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Living Romans 12
Byhenry September 4, 2009
Alan Knox has reposted a series on how the church can live Romans 12:9-21 along with some current thoughts. He points out that Romans 1-11 are theological, but starting with Romans 12, Paul begins to speak about how the church can live out the theology of the first chapters. This all reminded me of one…
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Penal Substitution is ONE of the Ways to Talk about the Atonement
Byhenry September 1, 2016
I think The Truth Is … Out There on the Wesley Bros. Blog did a good job of expressing this. To my liberal brothers and sisters: Yes, I do believe in penal substitution. To my conservative brothers and sisters: No, I don’t believe in it as the one and only way to believe in or…
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The Importance of Experience
Byhenry March 24, 2015
I was thinking of titling this “In Which I Annoy My Evangelical United Methodist Friends,” since so many of them are talking about the Wesleyan Quadrilateral and trying to privilege scripture within it in some way. I am not entirely in sympathy with many of these approaches. You see, the moment I decided to take…
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