As I attempt to recover from an onslaught of work, snow and continued sniping over written indiscretions, allow me to make a humble request for the coming weekend:
If your Good Friday or Easter service includes music or other performing arts that touches you and heightens your perceptions in these days of remembrance, will you take [...]
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Wayne Leman has posted an excellent question on the Better Bibles Blog on whether we create shibboleths, or exclusive social groups, within Christianity or the church by which Bible translation we carry around with us:
Maslow claimed that one of the most basic human needs is the desire to belong, to be part of a group. [...]
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Brilliant. The mantra (”Corporate, corporate, corporate… Paul is not writing to you!“) of a former teacher is ringing in my ears after viewing this 5-minute clip of a Gordon Fee lecture/sermon on “Being the People of God in Unity and Community”, set to visuals.
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It is so easy to slip into an individualistic interpretation of Paul, [...]
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We had a powerful presentation at church today from Brother Yun, a representative of the Back to Jerusalem organization and former pastor within the underground house church movement in China that claims 130 million Christians. The Back to Jerusalem group’s goal is to complete the Great Commission by preaching the gospel from China back to [...]
**Update** I’ve expanded the opening paragraphs from the original posting to provide a little more context. I also changed the article title to be less negative.
On my About page, I wrote that:
“I grew up in a non-denominational Christian church and never paid any attention to doctrine, creed or theological issues, if such things [...]
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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 in conversation [...]
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 [...]
Note: out of respect for those involved, the letter below has been edited to abbreviate identifying names and/or places. The opening and closing pleasantries have been excised to present the heart of the letter and keep the length more manageable.
October 6 [1969]
Dear Mom,
I understand from [sister] J that you got a letter from the school [...]
Brian Fulthorp made the following comment in my post on translation errancy:
I often wonder too if the biggest difference is mostly just stylistic differences - a couple translations can use different words which are actually synonyms of each other (based on the same Greek word) that are chosen more for stylistic reasons more than anything.
In [...]
In my post about surveying Bible translations with respect to a three-legged stool of interpretation foci, John Hobbins made the following comment:
If NIV/TNIV gets it act together, translates the so-called Apocrypha, and produces a study Bible that is attentive to the history of interpretation, it might become a worthy competitor of NRSV.
There have been many [...]
