Apprentice 2 Jesus

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    The Divine “Yes”

    Yesterday I was at a day of fasting and prayer for pastors in our district (actually a section in our district). It was wonderful to get away for a day to spend time seeking the Lord in prayer, especially with other pastors and a few other church leaders as well. There was a point in the day that was an…

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    I Found Some of the Stimulus Money

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    NIV2011

    I don’t know anything about charts, but if this one means anything (and I have no idea if it does), I think I’m REALLY going to like the NIV2011.

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    Being a Confessional Pentecostal… or is it a Confessing Pentecostal?

    It shows how much I don’t know… and I readily admit it. But there is something that is becoming evident to me: I want to be more confessional in my Pentecostal roots and beliefs. I want to be more “credal.” Is that a word? I just got a spell-check squiggly… (This isn’t going to be a very formal treatise.) This…

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    The Assemblies of God Needs to Take Up the Creeds

    I’m working on this one… I just thought I’d throw the title out to see what might happen. 🙂 But in the meantime, this video is a GREAT interview that Pentecostals really need to take time to watch and learn. Anyway, regarding the AOG becoming more credal, go here.

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    No love lost for liberalism

    Theologically speaking, Barth had no love lost for liberalism. The emptiness of liberal theology is what drove him back to the Word in the first place. He spares no feeling for the failure of the Church to proclaim the Word of God. The catastrophic crash of orthodoxy in the 18th century, the consequences of which we still have to carry…

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    The Incredible Word of God

    There may not be much of Barth I will understand… I’m just not that smart. But what I do love early on is his view on the Word of God. He cuts through the liberal garbage of his day and goes back to what is core: it is about God speaking to us. It was time to rise above suspicion…

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    Our Delightful Democracy in Action

    The day after the election I wrote to all three congressional representatives who “represent” me in Congress: Two senators and a congressman. It was a joke because they never respond with any care any more. I simply did it to see how long it would take to get a canned response from them. To one senator’s credit, they responded back…

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    Nuggets I am getting…

    “It does not become God’s Word because we accord it faith but in the fact that it becomes revelation to us. But the fact taht it becomes revelation to us beyond all our faith, that is God’s Word even in spite of our lack of faith, is something we can accept and confess as true to us and for us…

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    The Word of God Written

    “All the Church need do is just this: After any exegesis propounded in it, even the very best, t has to realise afresh the distinction between text and commentary and to let the text speak again without let or hindrance…” (Barth) Every once in awhile I actually get something like this and it refreshes me so I can put my…