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The Importance of Bible Memorization
I have been leading my church through a Bible memory exercise the past several weeks. I am not exactly sure what this is doing for them, but it is refreshing my spirit. I used to be a fanatic about Bible memory, and have just slipped horribly in the past several years. Now, I am challenging my church, so I know…
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Verses that blow me away
We are working through memorizing Scripture as a church. The set we are on right now covers some of the attributes of God. Today our passage is Rom. 11:33-36. I am blown away by the depth of this passage. Paul is so overwhelmed with the majesty and wisdom of God and I can almost feel it when he writes these…
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Why I am Evangelical
I love the Word of God. Bible study is a deep passion of mine. The story of God. Learning the text, the context, the story, the lessons, etc. All of it. As an extension, I love what the Bible can do to bring me into a deeper communion with God. The Psalms are my prayer book. Any part of the…
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Christmas Eve and Weather Outside IS Frightful!
We made the trek to my family in Kansas a day early (Tuesday as opposed to Wednesday) because we were leery of the travel conditions in Iowa. Now, on Christmas Eve, we were certainly glad we made the choice because weather is horrible every mile of the journey between our home and Kansas. Our hometown of Minneapolis is getting hammered…
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Are We a Burden?
Announcing my weak attempt to preach from the Apocrypha elicited some wonderful responses. One text sent was a prophetic/Messianic text from the Wisdom of Solomon. It understand it can be taken as Messianic, but the passage (Wisdom 2:12-20) begins with, “Let us lie in wait for the righteous man…” It is a passage speaking of the wicked who are tired…
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Paying attention to the world
At one point in time I remember reading that living prophetically as a Christian is having a Bible in one hand and newspaper in the other. Well, both are readily available online, so maybe our hands are freed up to raise them to God in intercession. But we MUST pay attention to our world. There are things happening where we…
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Why the Old Testament?
In preparation for my Old Testament survey course I teach in the spring, I want to express my thanks for those who have given me wonderful ideas for OT passages to memorize. Now, the question I propose is this: WHY do we pay attention to the Old Testament? As a believer, not one who is taking a required course, WHY…
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A Question for Old Testament Studies
Next semester I am teaching a freshman college course on Old Testament. It’s a survey class. One of the exercises I am toying with is having passages of Scripture to memorize. If you had about six passages to assign, what Old Testament passages would you assign… and why? Let me hear from you! Especially T.C., Brian, Jeff, Bitsy, and Gary.
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Essential
I am wrapping up a semester of teaching basic theology to students. I am taking them through an exercise where they are developing their own statement of faith. Interestingly enough, I have come across posts about essential theology. T.C. links to Pen and Parchment for the discussion. There are some good thoughts. One thing to be reminded of is this:…
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Is Jesus THE Way?
A recent post over at ScriptureZealot stirred my thinking. Some of the more incendiary comments have since been edited out, but it stirs me nonetheless. It raised the specter of hard-line Calvinism simply saying, “If you don’t believe in TULIP (and some very specific tenets of Calvinism) then you are preaching another gospel.” That’s the subtle undertone of the piece…
Category: Bible Study
