Eager cries of “read this one!” can be heard, with multiple voices clamoring to recite the story alongside the descriptive pictures and actual text.
Re-baptism: A Sad Form of Unbelief
Re-baptism only occurs when concern over the hands pouring the water trumps the hands that created the water.
Jealousy and the Zero-Sum Game
We tend to be like the unfaithful servant in the parable of the three servants in Matthew 25:14-30. Our master has given us gifts to sow and invest. However, we are afraid that these resources that God has given us might run out so we go and bury them.
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but you don’t come back in
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you were never here
Nine? Try NoMarks: A Response to Jonathan Leeman (Part 2)
The Scriptures teach moral responsibility from the womb. They teach faith from the womb. God can save at any age because salvation is a restored relationship to God not one's mental comprehension of Him.
Nine? Try NoMarks: A Response to Jonathan Leeman (Part 1)
With respect to Leeman's attempt at piety over the role parents I wish he would quote some Scripture. Instead I will mention some.
Church as Family
The confession-oriented churches (credobaptism) have dispensed with this unity for a modernist community of convenience and exclusion.
Unto the Glory of God
The goal for Christians should always be, first and foremost, to be Godly people no matter what systems they find themselves in. At the same time, Christians should never be content to allow faithlessness toward God to exist in systemic ways.
Genesis 1 and the Framework Interpretation
Growing up in a conservative background, the default, the “biblical”, position was six literal 24-hour days. “The bible says day so it means day” was the logic. While admirable for taking the bible seriously as the inspired, inerrant Word of God, such literal biblicism misses the point that the creation narrative is not a scientific how-to guide for creation, it is a story portraying the creational work of God; it is a historical narrative.
Book Review: Still Life by Christa Parrish
Gripping and thought provoking, Parrish has crafted a story well worth engaging. The characters are recognizable, yet authentic.
The Temple of Creation and Female Priests
Eve was a priest.
Book Review: The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education
Ex Nihilo (Part 2)
What I would encourage you to do is study the material in the original language, from both young earth creationist and old earth creationists. If all we do is read from our own camp, and in a translated language, we will inevitably miss the vastness of the creation narrative.
Imagination & (Re)Creation
Ever since God’s incarnate Word broke forth from the tomb on Easter morning Genesis 1 is happening all over again. The world is being re-created.
The Historical Adam and Church History
This book, and its particular evangelical paradigm, have an important role in the creation discussions.
Stumbling towards OEC
If I had small kids, I'd probably take them to this
Let the Rocks Praise
Creator God is the one to whom I cling, and the one who has gifted His creation with the image of Himself.
Elementary Cosmology
Heck, if I become convinced of the science I'll gladly accept many more of Walton's propositions. But for now I'm going to sit back and enjoy Genesis 1 as the description of a very old materialistic creation.
Adam's Probation - Garden's Temple
I now propose some considerations on some of the greater themes of scripture from their points of origin within the Divine story of origins: the probationary period of Adam and Eve in relation to eschatological rest, and the garden of Eden as the temple of God.
Do Good and Repent of Your Pride
Christians are called to do what is good and learn to not be prideful in their good works through repentance.