by | Sep 29, 2007 | Bible, Church, Theology, Worship
Several months ago, I wrote two posts about the connection of the outward signs of circumcision and baptism to their respective inward realities: circumcision of the heart and baptism of the Spirit. You can read those posts here: Part 1 and Part 2. In the first post,...
by | May 19, 2007 | Bible, Theology, Worship
I was reading Psalm 72 just now, where Solomon prays that God would extend the rule of “the king.” (Actually, the “Of Solomon” could be translated “For Solomon,” and, since verse 20 says “The prayers of David, the son of...
by | Mar 29, 2007 | Bible, Books, Culture, History, Theology
Yesterday in my theology class, my professor expressed his disagreement with Augustine’s conception of the nature of evil. Augustine essentially argued three things: God created all things, so that nothing exists that God did not create. God created all things...
by | Mar 8, 2007 | Bible, Church, History, Theology
For my theology class, I just finished reading C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity. I know that I had already read the book twice, but I may also have read it a third time before this reading. Reading it again, though, showed me just how much Lewis has influenced my...
by | Mar 3, 2007 | Bible, Preaching, Theology
Should we could consider Jesus’ parables and sayings as the New Testament equivalent of wisdom literature, and, if so, in what ways we should understand what Jesus says to be different from the books of the Old Testament that we commonly label “Wisdom...
by | Mar 2, 2007 | Bible, Books, Theology
This past year that I have been in seminary in Alabama, I have still tried to keep up with the Daily Nebraskan, the school newspaper from my undergraduate institution, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. On Wednesday, they ran an editorial asserting that the Bible...