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Category Archives: Understanding the Bible
Hear the Lion, See the Lamb
Found this in doing my Revelation study with our Adult Sunday School class at Living Stones. There are a lot of parallels between Revelation chapter 5 and chapter 7. One of the coolest is hearing and seeing. In chapter 5 … Continue reading
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Pentecost
Jesus is over the top. If you ask someone who Jesus was and what he taught you’ll likely get one of two answers: “Jesus tells us how to get to heaven when we die” or “Jesus, like all other great … Continue reading
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NT Wright’s assertion of what Pentecost means
From his Pentecost Sermon of 07 posted here: http://www.ntwrightpage.com/sermons/Pentecost07.htm “The disciples, filled with the Spirit, begin the work of Jesus’ sovereign and saving rule over the world, whose Lord he now is, by their shared common life, their works of … Continue reading
NT Wright on the meaning of the Ascension
From NT Wright’s Pentecost sermon found at http://www.ntwrightpage.com/sermons/Pentecost07.htm “The early Christians, like their Jewish contemporaries, saw heaven and earth as the overlapping and interlocking spheres of God’s good creation, with the point being that heaven is the control room from … Continue reading
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Dan Allender on Lament as the shadow side of faith
This is from Philip Yancey’s book The Bible Jesus Read p. 128-129 To whom do you vocalize the most inense, irrational– meaning inchoate, inarticulate– anger? Would you do so with someone who could fire you or cast you out of … Continue reading
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John Calvin on Acts 2:21
I’m working on my Pentecost sermon for Sunday and came across this reference to what Calvin said about this verse in his commentary on Acts. The verse says “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” … Continue reading
Jeremiah 29 as the beginning of New Testament Missiology
Repost from August 29, 2006 Most of us are familiar with the flow change of redemption from the Old Testament to the New. In the Old Testament the nations are drawn to the “model” of Israel living out kingdom of … Continue reading
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God can even change the past
I have too often said “even God can’t change the past”. Now I’m not so sure. I read Mark 7 for family devotions to the kids. The chapter ends with Jesus healing a deaf man. The text talks about the … Continue reading
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Greg Boyd on the filter sin creates
Repost from May 22 2007. I got this from a Greg Boyd sermon and found his approach to understanding sin through the story of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil very creative and helpful in understanding how … Continue reading
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A God we can do business with
Philip Yancey in his chapter on Deuteronomy in The Bible Jesus Read makes this point. BOQ When God makes a list of commandments, Love takes first place, the basis of his whole relationship with humanity. God meets in a tent … Continue reading
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