He is Sufficient

Lingamish has posed the question, “Are you in love with Jesus?”, in a recent post about “Jesus is my boyfriend” worship songs on his Lingamish Forum*. He cites “Let my words be few” as a representative example of this genre: You are God in heaven And here am I on earth So I’ll let my [...]

HT: Leaving Münster Graham recently posted a link to an article written by Kevin Beck in 2002 on the redemptive aspect of eschatology. I’ll attempt to summarize it here through judicious quoting, but I urge you to take the time to read the entire argument. Put simply, most eschatological paradigms, even traditional preterist ones, define [...]

HT: ECC Worship Blog Craig A. Satterlee has written an article on Characteristics of Christian Worship for The Alban Institute, evidently an agent for change in American congregational life. Christians and congregations bring a host of assumptions about what constitutes Christian worship with them to the service. Rather than allowing these assumptions to catch us [...]

HT: The Riddleblog – The Latest Post and Yahoo! News Devilish debate on end for Church of England Thu Jan 10, 7:57 AM ET LONDON (AFP) – Eyebrows were raised in the House of Commons on Thursday when a motion calling for the Church of England to be disestablished was listed with the number 666, [...]

I neglected to mention/add Robert Jimenez’s fine blog, Weird Thinkers, in my last blogroll update. Robert sums up his blog nicely: I always feel weird, and out of place. Mostly because I have different ideas, I see things differently, and think very differently than most of my peers. I have always wanted to setup a [...]

In Luke 20, Jesus is confronted by Pharisees and Sadducees, all of whom try to entrap him with clever questions designed to make him choose a position opposite of their own, so that they could be justified in bringing about his death. After the scribes and chief priests fail to trap Jesus on a question [...]

HT: Bryan Lilly   What’s your eschatology? created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Amillennialist. Amillennialism believes that the 1000 year reign is not literal but figurative, and that Christ began to reign at his ascension. People take some prophetic scripture far too literally in your view. Amillennialist   100% Moltmannian Eschatology   85% Preterist   [...]

With thanks to Doug at Metacatholic for adding me to his blogroll, I wanted to spotlight a couple of new additions on this site’s rollcall, all of whom I’ve been introduced to by their insightful comments here. But first, I’m backhandedly honoring all of my blogrolled blogs by casting them into “a wilderness of words” [...]

After reading the current discussions on predestination and charismata on this blog, I’ve been reminded of a troublesome question that raises its head in my mind from time to time: Are Paul’s letters and epistles to be considered primary scripture revealed to Paul by God/Christ, e.g. Torah, or are they of the same vein as [...]

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