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Monthly Archives: January 2009
A Lover’s Quarrel: A Unity People
Garrett’s first wish for the Churches of Christ is – Let us recover our heritage as a unity people The Restoration Movement was “born of a passion for unity, and unity has been its consuming theme,” as Robert Richardson puts … Continue reading
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Changes in Church Demographics: Conflict, Part 3 (High-handed Elders)
[Moved from preceding post and revised.] The most common way I’ve seen where even a grace-centered church can split is where the elders are perceived as acting in a high-handed way, often despite the elders’ conscious efforts not to be … Continue reading
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Changes in Church Demographics: Conflict, Part 2 (Why Christians Fight)
[Moved and expanded from a comment I made in Part 1] For some reason, I’ve been consulted in a number of church conflicts in the last few years, sometimes as a lawyer, sometimes as an elder, sometimes because of my … Continue reading
A Lover’s Quarrel
Several months ago, the Abilene Christian University bookstore found a stash of old inventory and put it on sale for next to nothing. I ordered one of everything, and to my delight, got Leroy Garrett’s autobiography, A Lover’s Quarrel, for … Continue reading
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It’s Friday!!
Just a few things to close out the work week. First, Todd Deaver, author of Facing Our Failure, has begun his own blog, at http://todddeaver.wordpress.com/. He’s responding to Gil Yoder’s review at http://www.letusreason.com/. Next, here’s the latest approach to Attractional Church –
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Communion Meditation: God With Us
We call this the “Lord’s Supper,” but we often forget why. You see, Jesus not only instituted this meal, he promised to be with us when we eat it. (Mat 18:20) ”For where two or three come together in my … Continue reading
Changes in Church Demographics: Conflict
Conflict Even though conflicts within American religion over ordaining homosexuals have received a lot of attention in recent years, and seem to be tearing some denominations apart, the overall level of conflict within congregations is about what it was in … Continue reading
Surprised by Hope: Justin Martyr and the Didascalia Apostolorum
Back in the summer, I wrote a series of posts around N. T. Wright’s book Surprised by Hope, regarding the nature the end of time. Wright argues — quite convincingly — that the Bible teaches a bodily resurrection in a … Continue reading
Faith Lessons by Ray Vander Laan: Language of Culture (and the Parable of the Minas)
Sepphoris was a wealthy city about 3 miles from Nazareth, under construction at the time Jesus was working as a carpenter. Nazareth may have had 300 people, while Sepphoris may have had 20,000 or 30,000 residents. Herod the Great’s will … Continue reading
Important Archaeological News
This month’s issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review has an important article on Khirbet Qeifaya. The archaeologist overseeing the dig has concluded that the city is from the time of David, and this conclusion is supported by carbon dating and … Continue reading
