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Theology

A Bible Passage for Strategic Planners?

This morning’s team devotions came from a passage that is well known, but which poses real challenges for strategic planners… Matthew 6:31-34 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that […]

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Humour

The Beast is Numbered

Three of the blogs I read have articles about the number of the beat today. Is it a coincidence? I don’t think so – obviously I got something wrong in the eschatology quiz a day or two ago. Ruth Gledhill of the Times writes:  Have just filed a story I enjoyed writing on how the […]

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Theology

Circular Reasoning

There is an interesting post over at Think Christian reflecting on the way that we often use circular reasoning to defend the Christian faith. The message of the Bible is true – we know this because the Bible says so… If people don’t believe in the Bible in the first place this sort of thing […]

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Theology

A third of me is left behind!

I’ve just taken the Eschatology Quiz as followed by Peter Kirk and others. I’m very worried to find that I’m 30% left behind! I must have answered something wrong. More or less amilennial does seem to fit me though. What’s your eschatology? created with QuizFarm.com You scored as AmillenialistAmillenialism believes that the 1000 year reign […]

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Theology

Apparently I’m Emergent/Post Modern

Thanks to Doug for pointing me to this quiz which gives the definitive statement of my theological position – until the next quiz that is. I seem to remember that last time I did one of these things I was Weslyan (though I can’t find the quiz results now). I really should make up my […]

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Theology

John Piper, Tom Wright and the Apostle Paul

Doug Chaplin has finished a short, but excellent series on John Piper‘s book The Future of Justification. Piper’s book is an examination of Tom Wright’s  view on some aspects of Pauline Theology; what is often called the New Perspective on Paul (though the term was not coined by Wright). If you are interested in getting […]

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Christian Life

Christ on Earth

I’ve been reflecting more on the theme of how Christmas seems, all too often, to morph seamlessly into Easter which I started here and which Phil picked up on his blog. It’s not that I have an problem with linking Christmas and Easter, Christ did come to save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21) […]

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Bible Translation

God the Translator

Imagine for a moment that I only spoke Kouya and that I had something really important to say to you. How would I get my message across? Well assuming that gestures and an elaborate mime didn’t quite achieve the goal, I’d need to employ a translator. There are many theories about how translation works and […]

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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 […]