A Year on the Ash Heap: Travels with Job The book of Job is considered the oldest book of the Bible. With this in mind, the story becomes even more challenging. After all, if this account is the oldest book, then it follows that all of the other stories, directions, prophetic utterances and guidance was…
Following the excellent post by Barry Jenkins (see his comment under the Today’s Word “Paradigm Shift”), I thought it might be useful to put back up an article that I posted on the old web site. Here it is: The Church Today Christians stand at a significant crossroads in spiritual growth. On the one hand,…
Hi everyone. This is a special post to all the members of the community. Recently some very distressing things have been happening to members of our group, but unless you read all the comments, you probably would not be aware of them simply because they are attached to particular daily posts. Patrick recognized this problem…
Long before the term “prophet” took on its contemporary meaning of predicting the future, the Greek term prophetes has a very different meaning. In fact, until the Christian era after apostles refocused the meaning, it did not embody the concept of peering into the future at all. Prophetes has its roots in the Greek culture…
Hey everyone, Patrick the Tech Geek here. I just started re-listening to Skip’s audio class on Living The Biblical Worldview over this last week. (I attended the class and “cut-up” the audio, but I decided it was time for a re-listen.) I heard something that I totally missed the first time through on Disc 1…
A cathedral ceiling in Florence.
This picture is typical of the interior of many cathedrals is Spain. Imagine all the labor, passion and commitment that went into this. Imagine how removed this is from the simple worship of the King. Such beauty – such tragedy.
In the last few weeks, many in our cyber community have engaged in the dialogue about the written and oral Torah, its place in the lives of believers and its status in the life of Jesus and Paul. This is all good debate as it is intended to bring us closer and closer to imitating…
January 9, 2008 You shall not make for yourself an image Deuteronomy 5:8 The Idolatry of the Future Image – It’s all connected. Let me show you how. Idolatry is the substitution of devotion to something other than God. Keep that in mind as we look at a story from the life of Moses. In…
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