Added to Blogroll: Biblical Theology
The new Biblical Theology blog looks like a good new source of things to talk about from posts written by highly qualified contributors. (HT: awilum.com.)
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Opinions, Interpretations, and What the Word of God Says
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Lectionary and Mosaic Bible – Pentecost + 3
ByhenryI’m ending a hiatus in blogging of just over a month. I see my last post was dated May 8, 2010, but I was pretty sparse for a month before that. I’ll get a post up about what I was doing during that time. No, nothing adventurous; just trying to do necessary work to grow…
Moving on to Ephesians
ByhenryIn The Way Sunday School class at First UMC Pensacola we just completed The Journey to the Undiscovered Country by William Powell Tuck. We used that book as an interlude between Philippians and the Ephesians study to follow. The entire class really appreciated the book and the discussions that resulted. Unlike some books you may…
Talk about the Method
ByhenryWhen I teach Sunday School classes, as I often do, there is nothing more likely to lull people to sleep than a discussion of hermeneutics. I get a great deal of attention talking about history. People are very interested as I explore some different interpretations of a particular Biblical passage and where and when those…
Word Study Dangers: Your Dependence on Scholars
ByhenryA young man in one of my classes once told me that he didn’t want to depend on scholars. His aim in attending my class on Bible study was to know for himself. Now this young man has an admirable goal, provided that you use “goal” in the same sense as one uses “north star”…
God: Nice or Not?
ByhenryOne of my Old Testament professors once told me that he thought survey courses might better be left to the end of one’s program, that one could greatly benefit by a survey course after one had studied more deeply into the various elements. I agree, though I would suggest a starting survey and then a…