God models perfectly every virtue that the Spirit is trying to bear in us as we are slowly being reformed in Christ’s image. Humility is one of those virtues. Philippians 2:3 says, “do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.” I believe that God in Christ perfectly displayed… [Read more…]
February 23, 2011
I love the difficult and obtuse parts of the Bible. There is so much more than meets the modern eye. I often ask of an odd text, “why would that be placed here? Why would God inspire that? Why would the prophet, evangelist, or apostle record that?” With a little digging all sort of places… [Read more…]
September 25, 2009
If you are an iTunes user and seeking good theological resources you may enjoy RC Sproul’s teaching series on Renewing Your Mind. Currently there is a short series on contemporary theology available. It is quite good. However, it is quite dated so that it is not really a survey of current contemporary theological trends but… [Read more…]
September 17, 2009
Why is is that equally brilliant people draw differing conclusions on the same matter? In economics, the capitalist argues with the socialist. In politics, the conservative argues with the liberal. In philosopher, the realist argues with the idealist. In theology, the Catholic argues with the Protestant. And so on and so forth, ad infinitum. Why… [Read more…]
September 16, 2009
A good friend, Jason Dulle, has just posted a wonderful article on a positive understanding of the concept of creeds. We all have them whether we deny it or not. In fact, it is impossible not to have a creed, at least personally. Credo simply means “I believe” in Latin. So start with “I believe”… [Read more…]
August 4, 2009
“John Wesley didn’t like using the word ‘persons’ of the Trinity. One reason that’s not [helpful], it’s historic and all, but it’s very difficult for us to think of persons without thinking of individuals. When I say ‘person’ we’re thinking about a detached individual. You’re not really a person in our culture if you’re completely… [Read more…]
July 31, 2009
In these quotes, Willimon addresses theologizing about God and he attacks abstract theology rather heavily. While I don’t agree with him that the attributes of God are merely abstractions not found in Scripture, I think he is right to point us back to Jesus. What does it mean to serve a crucified but risen Lord? … [Read more…]
May 16, 2009
This is how I responded to my friend’s discussion, outlined in part 1: The point of my response was that similarities and commonalities of experience, religious experience in this instance, is to be expected on the one hand because of our shared humanity (and religious orientation, imo), and on the other hand it has no… [Read more…]
May 15, 2009
I had a very interesting interchange with an old friend of mine recently on the subject of speaking in tongues. He opened the discussion with a reference to this recent article in the New York Times, “A Neuroscientific Look at Speaking in Tongues.” He was pointing to this article as supporting his experience of speaking… [Read more…]
August 26, 2008
Mark Johnson, pastor of the Journey, gives a very good word on the sufficiency of Scripture in “The Source of Safety” as well as a short take on the Emergent movement. I’ll include an excellent byte here: The solution … is to run to the source of safety; to trust the Bible more than either… [Read more…]
April 25, 2008
For a class on Christian Philosophy in my M.Div program at Southern Seminary, James Sire’s The Universe Next Door was assigned reading. I greatly enjoyed reading it and in fact I recommend it. In this post, however I merely want to mention a point I found helpful. In the discussion on theistic existentialism, Sire points… [Read more…]
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