Check out this new exciting project from the International Bible Society!! It’s called “The Books of the Bible” and it features the entire text of the TNIV in a more theologically and chronologically sensitive order without chapter or verse numbers, footnotes, or multiple columns. Basically they want you to just read and pay attention to [...]
The Missional Manual Challenge…
Here is the challenge that was laid down to me by my brother: How is it that so many servants of God, all over the world can be missional if they’ve never heard the word “missional”? It must be because we read the same Holy Scriptures and have the same desire: to be the church [...]
Philip Jakob Spener on Scripture and the Christian Life…
This is an excellent quotation (although rather lengthy) from Pia Desideria (“Pious Longings”) by Philip Jakob Spener written in 1675. Listen to what he has to say. I think that there are some great things that we could take away from his message. Thought should be given to the more extensive use of [...]
The Septuagint and Biblical Inspiration…
Just a random thought for today that might be interesting to bring up again sometime in a discussion of Bibliology (the study of the written word). How does our theology of inspiration deal with the fact that sometimes writers choose to use the Septuagint (LXX) to quote their OT texts when the Hebrew original may [...]
Starving to Death While Surrounded by Food…
Do I have your attention yet? I know some people that are in that very situation: Starving to death while surrounded by food. Seems stupid doesn’t it? No, I’m not talking about physical food (especially since I am not struggling in the waistline department) but I am talking about people who are spiritually starving, malnourished, [...]
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