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Mission

Missional Reading of Scripture

Brian has some wonderful random thoughts on the missional reading of Scripture including this brilliant snippet. It is vital to learn to think “Christianly” But in today’s climate where the very claims of Christianity are not widely accepted or even understood, any approach to Scripture that merely increases the knowledge of “insiders” is in danger […]

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Mission

Missional Matthew

Brian Russel has just started would should be an exciting and challenging series on Matthew. This should be well worth following as this excerpt from his introduction illustrates: The Gospel of Matthew reaches its zenith in Jesus’ commissioning of his disciples to Make Disciples. (Matt 28:18-20)  Notices that this is not merely a call for […]

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Church: UK Church: World Computing/Internet

Blogs I read: Christian Blogs

This is a large and amorphous category and there isn’t a lot in common between some of these blogs other than they are written by Christians.  I actually read more blogs than I will list here, but some are of of restricted interest or post so rarely that I won’t give them a mention. One […]

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Mission

The Centrality of Mission

I’m generally allergic to articles on mission which are based on Matthew 28. It seems to me that we often concentrate on the few well know verses of The Great Commission and miss out the wider teaching of Scripture. However, I’m willing to make an exception in the case of this excellent article by Brian […]

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Bible Translation

Bible Translators Do Get It Wrong….

Elshaddai Edwards has an excellent post which reviews different philosophies of Bible translation and points out their strengths and weaknesses. The great thing about this article is that whatever translation or translation philosophy you prefer, Edwards will probably upset you. That’s what I call and even handed approach. If you want inerrancy, you need to […]

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Observations

Thou shalt not…. or shalt thou?

Hamo has just written a very short, but extremely profound post.  Before you go over to his blog, just ask yourself whether it is ever ok for a Christian to tell a lie? When you’ve thought about that for a few seconds, read what he has to say here. The moral of the story is […]

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Reviews

The Bible on Google Earth?

Today’s Daily Telegraph has an interesting article about an artist who produced art works of Biblical scenes that look as if they come from Google Earth. The examples here are of the Garden of Eden and the crossing of the Red Sea.

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Bible Translation

A really unhelpful footnote!

During last night’s sermon I was amused to read the NIV footnote for 2 Corinthians 6:15: 2 Corinthians 6:15 Greek Beliar, a variant of Belial Just how many readers of the NIV would worry about that one letter change in Greek? And how many readers would know what either Belial or Beliar means in any […]

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Theology

NT Wright on reading the Bible

But I’ve been trying to stress that the risen Jesus does not say to the disciples, “All authority on heaven and earth is given to the books you chaps are going to go off and write.” He says, “All authority on heaven and earth is given to Me.” So that if we say that Scripture […]

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Theology

Top Verses: A Strange Idea

Thanks for Doug for drawing my attention to a very strange way of approaching the Bible.  Top Verses is a website which describes itself as: the home of the sorted Bible. We always show the most popular verses first, making it quicker to find what you’re looking for. Search for a particular word, or click […]