Archive for November, 2008
theology meets life
I have a new post up on Paul and Timothy in which I review the first post of a new blog started by Steven Marquardt. Both the title of my post on Paul and Timothy and the title of Steven’s new blog is Theology Meets Life, and I encourage you to check it out.
restored to thanksgiving
Romans chapter one tells us that the wrath of God is being revealed against all people who supress the truth of God by their unrighteousness (v.18). Apart from the work of Christ wrought in our hearts, this describes all of us. Paul goes on to tell us that although God, through creation, has revealed his eternal power and divine nature to [...]
UXOR MATRIS THEOLOGUS
My wife, Chelsi, just made her first post on her new blog UXOR MATRIS THEOLOGUS. On her next post she plans to share her most recent poem (which I already revealed to you in my last post) with some of her own thoughts concerning the experience it speaks of. In posts after that she hopes to write on her recent musings concerning church history… and after that… well, [...]
My wife, Chelsi, wrote a poem this past week about one of the most precious and terrible days of our lives. It is yet untitled, and she reminds me it may not be in its final form, but I found it so beautiful that I couldn’t delay sharing it with you.
The poem is about the day our [...]
a theology of emoticons
For those of you who are a little behind the times, Merriam Webster’s Online dictionary defines an emoticon as a group of keyboard characters (that usually elicit an icon such as ) that typically represents a facial expression or suggests an attitude or emotion and that is used especially in computerized communications (as [...]
I just posted part 2 to this series on the Paul and Timothy Blog.
I have always had difficulty when academic institutions acknowledge that they are not a local church (no church polity, no church discipline, etc. ) yet claim to be accomplishing a task that only the church is given the authority to do; namely, [...]
a tale of 2 feasts
We have been looking at the book of Esther in our Thursday night gathering here at the community house.
Esther is a tale of 2 feasts.
It begins with the most powerful human ruler on the earth, giving a show of “his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his greatness for many days, 180 days.” [...]
I read a blog post on one of the blogs in my must read blogs list this morning. It is a post entitled “Hellish!” on Chris Taylor’s blog, The Forward Look.
Chris’ post just previous to this one is also on the topic of hell. It is called, “The Insufficiency of Hell to [...]
fear God, honor the king
1 Peter 2:17.
Honor the king. Really? Give him honor? What does that really mean?
Merriam Webster’s Online dictionary defines honor as, a good name or public esteem. Under synonyms it gives the comment that honor may apply to the recognition of one’s right to great respect or to any expression of such recognition.
The Greek word used [...]
