Archive for September, 2007
30 Sep
Weekend Fun
27 Sep
Who is the “Seed of Abraham”?
In Genesis 12:3 the foundation is laid for the concept of blessing the seed of Abraham. The LORD tells Abram, “. . . And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Not using any sort of hermeneutical principle employing grammatical historical exegesis but speaking by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, [...]
27 Sep
Sunday: The Best Day of the Week
Our friend Sean Higgins has penned a thoughtful series on “The Best Day of the Week.” Part One: The Lord’s DayPart Two: The First DayPart Three: Caveats and ClarificationPart Four: The Best Day
26 Sep
What not to do when reading the Scripture
Could I offer any examples of reading Scripture backwards that could discombobulate the meaning of OT texts? Yes, but first a warning. When we quote someone here by way of disagreement it should not be read that we are pronouncing Ichabod on a man or his ministerial work. The man I am about to quote [...]
26 Sep
UPDATED: Are we rationalist?
(Thanks to Mr. R. Scott Clark who has responded to this post. After reading his post my initial concerns and objections remain. For further explanation, see my comments to our friend Colin Adam here below. I have given about as much attention to this as I can at the moment. Matt will be back at [...]
25 Sep
Jude 14-15 application
Apostates come in all shapes and sizes. In Jude 15, Jude talks about the coming judgment of Christ (during his 2nd coming). The text says Jesus will come “to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds and…of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against [...]
23 Sep
What Exactly is the “Apostles’ Hermeneutic”?
In a recent blog post entitled “Dispensationalism and Modernism,” Tom Hicks writes that one of the biggest problems with dispensationalism is its refusal “to accept as paradigmatic and normative the NT’s own hermeneutic of the OT.” According to Hicks, the hermeneutic we use should be derived from the Bible itself. This criticism of dispensationalism is [...]
21 Sep
Doug Pagitt apologizes on behalf of John MacArthur
Between reading Listening to the Beliefs of the Emergent Church and Preaching Re-Imagined I feel like I have a fairly good grasp on Emergent/emerging/emergentising/emergentologist/emergentherapist Doug Pagitt. I agree with Mark Driscoll who responded to Pagitt in Listening to the Beliefs that “I am left to wonder if his pleading for love is something he also [...]
20 Sep
Imitating the illimitable and illustrative (i.e., learning to write)
Zinsser says, “If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I’d say I learned by reading the men and women who were doing the kind of writing I wanted to do and trying to figure out how they did it.” Obvious but good advice. I would also add that ones ability to write increases [...]
18 Sep
“Suffer the children” or suffering children’s ministries?
One of our savvy readers posed the following questions: “AWANA. How do you view their position on salvation? What is your approach in teaching children about salvation? How is the best way to evangelize children?” AWANA: As to the first question about AWANA I have no first-hand experience in our church as we do not [...]
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