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Logos Bible Software is celebrating the launch of their new online Bible by giving away 72 ultra-premium print Bibles at a rate of 12 per month for six months. The Bible giveaway is being held at Bible.Logos.com and [...]

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The Believers Form a Community (Acts 2:42-47[NLT])
All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer. A deep sense of awe came over them all, and the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders. And all the believers met together [...]

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During a recent read of Hebrews 4, I noticed a curious translation choice in verse 15 in the TNIV. I really like the TNIV and use it for my primary reading (depending on what day or time it is or the color of my shirt). However, the NRSV’s translation is more accurate, both [...]

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“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path (Ps 119:105).” This is a really famous line from the Bible. So famous, in fact, that I tend to push it into the backseat…subordinate it to other ‘more serious’ passages. But this past weekend, as I wrote my [...]

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Today, Rebecca and I are working through the Woman at the Well text again to preach tomorrow. I’ve been working on it for two weeks, but try to get a husband and wife in the same room long enough to plan a sermon. It is such a rich text! I have to [...]

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This is a monologue I used yesterday in our worship service. It takes a look at the “woman at the well” story of John 4 from an entirely different perspective. I won’t say too much, but I look forward to your comments. Read the Gospel here. The video is about 14 [...]

 

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A book I’m reading, Invitation to Theology by Micharl Jinkins, invited me to rewrite a long TF Torrance quote in my own words. I ought to do things like this more often.
“God is totally unknowable to us. His ways are completely alien to ours, for the unmineable depth of His greatness and majestic [...]

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[this is a response to a response of a rather large bloggersation begun here and catalogued here]
Notes from off center,

Great stuff here. I’m working through the cross posting trying to formulate an entry point or simply spectate. [This response grew into a monster...so, not having the time to enter the main dialogue, I [...]

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When I work on a teaching text, more than not I end up rewriting it in my own words using what I’ve taken in. I got to preach last Sunday and this is what I came up with based on Acts 2:42-47.
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My family attended a group home party last night. Child Protective Services places kids who have been removed from their homes – due to all kinds of abuse, neglect and otherwise criminal activity – in group homes around the county. One such home is the Sunshine Kids …and it is this home that [...]

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