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Do Not Use

More on Sermons and the Word of God

Bruce Alderman has picked up on an earlier post of mine and written a thoughtful post on how the Word of God and preaching interact. You can find it here.

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Quotes

Barth on Preaching

I love this quote from Karl Barth – but you might have to read it slowly a few times! “Our initial point is that God himself wills to reveal himself. He himself wills to attest his revelation. He himself — not we — has done this and wills to do it. Preaching, then, takes place […]

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Church: World Theology

The Gospel and Culture: the homeless Gospel

A few days ago, I posted a short piece on the Gospel and Culture with five bullet points. I want to unpack each of these points in a series of posts over the next wee while, starting (somewhat strangely) with the first point: The original language and culture of the Gospel are not sacred… this […]

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Church: World

It’s Sunday, but Jesus is Coming

I’ve been trying to think of a good post for the Easter season but failing miserably. However, Think Christian put me on to this excellent piece by James Watkins. Author Tony Campolo’s most famous message declares, “It’s Friday, but Sunday’s Comin’.” But what happens when it’s Sunday and we’re still facing death and despair? Jesus […]

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Theology

I think this is beautiful

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Theology

NT Wright on Heaven and Hell

Another video – this one from ABC News, with NT Wright talking about what happens when you die. I can’t embed the video on this site, but you can watch it here. He is talking about similar themes to those addressed in his latest book Surprised by Hope.

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Theology

Trinity Blogging Summit

Nick Norelli has just posted 8 excellent article on the Trinity. They are the work of a number of authors from a variety of backgrounds and if the sample I have read is anything to go by, they will be well worth studying. You can find the links here. The quote below is from Doug […]

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Observations Reviews

Surprised by Hope

For the last three or four years, I’ve been saying to anyone who cared to listen (and to some who didn’t) that the most important Christian book that I’ve read for ages is The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church by Frost and Hirsch. Shaping helped me rethink […]

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Theology

What’s wrong with systematic theology?

Last weekend during a church service the leader talked about a training scheme which the church is running saying something along the lines of we study the Bible in more detail using Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology. Now, I might be awkward, but I’m far from convinced that studying a systematic theology is a good way […]

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Theology

Gospel Harmony

For a Bible translator, harmonization of the Gospels involves a painstaking process of making sure that when the Gospel writers say the same thing the same way, the translated text does the same thing. Conversely, when the writers say the same thing in different ways the translation should reflect this too. Given the flexibility and […]