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Rest Might Not Mean What You Think

What if rest doesn’t really mean what we think it means? Rest in the Bible doesn’t mean “not working.” It means to begin the regular rhythms and routines that are present in a time of safety and stability, when we have enough, when we are with people who love us.  God always wanted his people […]

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Weekly Sounding: Do men and women read the Bible differently?

Just want to say thank you to everyone who helped fund the new podcast. It IS ALREADY FUNDED, and we have two days to go. YES! Any addition funds that come in will got equipment, maintenance costs, and subscriptions fees that will make it even easy to produce and sustain a high quality podcast. Sounding: Do men and women read the […]

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Mastering Objectivity? Or Subject to the Bible

Tim Challies ended a recent post criticizing the practice of Lectio Divina by saying, “This, then, is a danger in Lectio Divina, that it may teach us to approach the text subjectively rather than objectively.” But what is the big deal about reading the text subjectively as opposed to objectively? 3 Subjects of Scripture It is […]

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Theology of Scripture?

I’ve been reading two books on a theology of Scripture in order to beef up my class on “Biblical and Theology Reflections on Ministry and Culture” (what a mouthful, not my title) at Northern Seminary (their MDim program). They are both from a more Reformed perspective, for what it is worth. “Words of Life” is […]

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Scripture and N.T. Wright

N.T. Wright on Scripture in Modernity: Modernity “gave rise to the false antithesis of seeing scripture either as a convenient repository of timeless truth, a vehicle for imparting ‘true information,’ or as a take-it-or-leave-it resource, itself at one remove from the reality of which it spoke, some of which might come in handy from time […]