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“I suppose,” she began again, stoking the fire, “the reason I care so much about my friends is because I don’t have a great relationship with my family.”
We were sitting in a house with intermittent electricity, in a remote village in th…
Mar/16/2016
I'm convinced that a major reason the American church faces decline is because, in many places, the stories of God's steadfast love for humanity are no longer being told or explained. Study after study has shown that church-going Americans …
Mar/14/2016
Although older, two of the most valuable commentaries on Philippians are Gordon Fee (New International Commentary on the New Testament [NICNT]; Eerdmans, 1995) and Markus Bockmuehl (Black’s New Testament Commentary; Hendrickson, 1998). Both…
Mar/09/2016
Having set forth a defense of the traditional teaching in the previous installments (1, 2, 3), let me now examine the reasons it has been rejected, admitting that reducing their criticisms to a single sentence cannot but be reductive. I not…
Mar/07/2016
Evangelism in America has long been focused on eliciting an individual decision to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. The decision one makes determines whether one’s sins are forgiven, and thereby one’s eternal destiny. This call to de…
Mar/02/2016
My first exposure to what became known as the emerging church occurred during my senior year of high school in late 1991 when I started attending NewSong in Covina, California.
They met in a junior high school gym. They had dynamic music…
Feb/24/2016
One of the advantages of crises is that they force us to return to the basics. And so many of us are asking a rather basic question: What is theological education? The question is just the sort of beginning the thirteenth-century theologian…
Feb/22/2016
Once upon a time, in Buster Keaton’s immortal Sherlock Jr., a young projectionist falls asleep on the job. While his body sleeps, the young man’s spirit awakens. Bewildered at first, his spirit sees the movie flickering on the screen at the…
Feb/17/2016
It is fair to say that more commentaries are published on the letters of Paul from Romans through Ephesians than most other biblical books. This is a blessing but also presents a challenge as students and pastors strive to discern what are …
Feb/10/2016
In “The Musicality of Catechesis,” we saw how the virtuoso performance of the catechetical teaching and preaching of Augustine cannot be fully grasped without resort to a category like musicality. Applying this insight to the Wesleyan tradi…
Feb/08/2016
“Salvation” is a word commonly used to refer to our eternal destiny. When some Christians ask, “Are you saved?” they usually mean: “Do you know God has forgiven your sins and that you will go to heaven when you die?” This understanding of s…
Feb/03/2016
The 2016 election cycle promises to be one of the most acrimonious of my lifetime. Even though civil political discourse has been broken for some time now, the hateful, mean-spirited dialog has already extended well beyond the traditional “…
Feb/01/2016
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