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The Necessity of Factions in the Church

by | Sep 6, 2008 | Bible, Church, Theology

Edit, 1/22/2011: I have been going back through some old blog posts, and I wanted to write that I do not find this blog post persuasive at all any more. I want to leave it here, but the more I read this, the more I hear Paul’s words dripping with sarcasm, not...

Outward Sign, Inward Reality–Part Three

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,...

What We Have Been Given

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...

Jesus Is Wisdom

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...

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