Category: Theology
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According to studies cited in Timothy D Wilsons book ReDirect-Changing the stories we live by, there are three ingredients that contribute more than anything else to human happiness. I have commented on all three below and how all three are connected to a healthy life of faith. 1. MEANING: Finding meaning. The better we understand and explain…
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This article first appeared at http://newlife.id.au/prominent-biblical-scholars-on-women-in-ministry/ Some Christians think that only people who have a “loose approach to scripture” can believe that women should be leaders and teachers in the church. I strongly doubt that any evangelical Christian would regard these scholars and theologians as having a loose approach to scripture, and yet each of them…
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“It happens way too often: You’re sitting there in the audience, listening to someone talk, and you know that there is a better and great talk in that person, it’s just not the talk he’s giving.” That’s TED’s Bruno Giussani, a man who cannot stand seeing potentially great speakers blow their opportunity. The point of…
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I LOVED THIS SO MUCH I HAD TO REPOST Vive la Révolution! Brian Zahnd Pagan astrologers read it in the stars — a new king of the Jews had been born. And so the magi came from the Orient bearing their gifts and accidentally got tangled up with the current King of the Jews —…
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Part 1 “Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.” Romans 16:7 (NIV 2011) Paul had already named women as coworkers in Romans 16 and would go on to name several more. Naming someone or…
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And I tell you that you are Peter [petros = rock], and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on…
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DAVID SCHOLER’S ESSAY ON WOMEN IN MINISTRY INTRODUCTION In the following we present Fuller Seminary’s position on women in ministry, as described and biblically supported by the late Professor of New Testament David M. Scholer. Women have contributed much to the ministry of the Church throughout its history. However, their role in this area has…
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There has been so much emphasis on a “personal relationship with Jesus” that I wonder if we’ve lost track of how important our life with others is in our pursuit of knowing him. When Jesus led his early followers he had them living and loving together. They didn’t just all have personal one on one…
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“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” — 1 Corinthians 15:55 As many Christians sat down on Sunday morning to celebrate Easter, a suicide bombing targeting Christians halfway across the world in Lahore, Pakistan killed 72 people and injured at least 320. Right as Western Christians were shouting, “He is…
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Yesterday I posted about the Cross, that was Good Friday. Today is Easter Saturday and the question is “Where is God in the Darkness and the Chaos?” After all the disciples must have felt like this on the very first Easter Saturday, and all of us feel this way at times. Where is God? From…
