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Monthly Archives: May 2010
The Political Church: Meeting God in the Torah, Part 2
Bankruptcy (Deu 15:1-2 ESV) “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of … Continue reading
The Holy Spirit: The Torah, Part 2
Numbers (Num 11:25-29 ESV) 25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on … Continue reading
The Political Church: Some quick thoughts on welfare
Readers, One point of the preceding post on the Torah is to learn about what’s important to God — figuring that whatever is important to him should be important to us. And I think Deuteronomy teaches us that care for … Continue reading
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The Political Church: Meeting God in the Torah, Part 1
We can’t really sort through how the church and Christians should relate to the government until we figure out who God is and what he wants from us. And one less-than-obvious place to learn this is the Law of Moses. … Continue reading
Weekend Notes
The conversion to having my WordPress blog hosted by Theobloggers proceeds apace. It’s taking a while, but evidently I have a larger blog than most. Whudathunk? I’m not entirely sure what all the changes will be. I know the Index … Continue reading
The Holy Spirit: The Torah, Part 1
We start, quite naturally, in the Old Testament and in Genesis. Now, the Hebrew word for “spirit” is ru’ach, which is also the word for “breath” and for “wind” — the same is true in Greek. Therefore, while it’s usually … Continue reading
Too Close to Home
Thanks to Reverend Fun.
The Fork in the Road: A Different Gospel, Part 7 (Why Galatians Has to Be)
My biggest difficulty in accepting Galatians’ teachings on the salvation of those who seek a works salvation is the seeming unfairness of it all. Why condemn someone just because he insists that the instrumental music is a salvation issue? For … Continue reading
The Holy Spirit: Introduction: Alexander Campbell
The Restoration Movement (or Stone-Campbell Movement), which gave birth to the Churches of Christ, resulted from the merger of two earlier movements, one founded by Barton W. Stone and one founded by Thomas and Alexander Campbell. The Stone movement is … Continue reading
The Gospel You’ve Never Heard: What a Protestant Bible written by Jews says about God’s work through Christ (A book for those in the church and those offended by it), by David I. Rudel
Well, it finally happened. I signed up with Viral Ooze to receive books to review, the deal being I have to post a review (good, bad, or indifferent), but I get the book for free. Which is very cool, except … Continue reading
