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That’s a line adapted from something I remember hearing Jamie Ragel say at one of our state Evangelism Conferences a few years ago. He was talking about drums in worship and how some people react to them. This wasn’t how he said he felt, but how some people do. Dan Kimball has written about how [...]
The Bible has quite a bit to say about the power of our thoughts. Proverbs 23:7 says, “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” In Romans 12:2 the apostle Paul goes so far as to say that we are “transformed by the renewing of our minds.” Needless to say, the things we [...]
The doctrine of the Trinity can seem so….so….incomprehensible. This is especially true if you read some of the church debates over the Trinity that took place in the fourth century. Your head will be sure to spin when you begin to see words like “homoousios” and the like. Was Jesus of the same substance as [...]
Some years ago an old high school friend was serving as Youth Minister at a church. Not being there I don’t know all of the details behind the story, but it is a church where I have friends and family, so I heard about it from their perspective. The Youth Minister was leaving the church. [...]
In his book A Community Called Atonement Scot McKnight writes that any theory of atonement should keep the end in mind – what was atonement meant to produce? In answering that question McKnight notes that the atonement was not just meant to produce forgiven people, but that “the work of God is to form a [...]
I realize that’s a strange thing to be saying in some of the circles in which I run. Karl Barth is the poster boy for neo-Orthodoxy. But I think Barth gets too much criticism for the “neo” part and not enough credit for the “orthodoxy” part. It simply cannot be denied that Bart’s critique of [...]
Why do you suppose we have four gospels? More specifically, why do we have three “synoptic” gospels? But this question really applies to all four. Believing that God inspired the Scriptures what was his purpose in four canonical gospels? Why not just give us the one definitive one? Why not add the stories of Jesus’ [...]
I love theology and philosphy. I love to think and stretch my mind. It is one of the reasons I love to read so much. I once took a sort-of “spiritual gifts inventory” that gagued how we primarily relate to important things in our lives – specifically how we primarily find meaning in our faith. [...]
Ah…a week away on a mission trip and another of vacation and I’m finally back in the office. This week our church is having VBS, but I ended up withdrawing from the class I was planning to take at Northern Seminary. My intent was to audit the class. One, it was much cheaper to audit, [...]
Yesterday our church experienced a great example of Christian community. One of our church members has been in the process of re-roofing his house. Sunday night there was only a 20% chance of rain in the forecast, but if you are from around the Tulsa area you know that 20% quickly turned into what a [...]
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