Jesus Born of a Virgin? Examining the Isaiah Prophecy of the Child
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David and Goliath: A lesson in Context. Guaranteed to Upset your Sunday School Teacher
Did God come strolling through the Garden? Maybe we have some translation issues.
Which Translation Should I Use? Does it really matter?
“Train up a child” and your good? Proverbs 22:6
Where 2 or 3 have gathered, someone is going to start a service off with this verse. Should we?
Jesus’ Parables: Why Matters
If you ever find yourself confused by Jesus’ parables, don’t feel too bad. Jesus’ parables befuddled His own disciples. When they ask for clarification, Jesus reveals that an important part of understanding His parables is understanding why He’s using them in the first place. So, why does Jesus...
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One Man’s Reception of the Reception History Conference of the Society of Pentecostal Studies’ 2019 Annual Meeting
I have just returned from my first SPS annual meeting. As a newbie, I was less than impressed. Rats! There goes the tension spring in another understatement meter; I should buy those by the dozen. The diatribe comes below, but first, let me briefly explain “Reception History,” which...
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Mao + Stalin + Hitler + Modern Technology = X. Solve for X.
The struggle for power is as natural to human nature as love and hate. On a sociological scale it is as fundamental to the patterns of history and culture as the struggle for survival. If world history has taught me anything, it is that there is, and always...
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Is The Bible Anti-Science?
One of the many things that I do that annoys the easily-annoyed is that I complicate supposedly simple things. When people denounce the Bible as “anti-science,” I annoy them with questions about the definition and limits of science. Then I challenge their perception of Scripture as merely a...
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The Weird and Wild World of Genesis 3
Genesis 3 has some interesting challenges for the average modern reader. We have a special garden in the midst of an uninhabited world, two seemingly magical trees… one a source of life the other a source of death. We have two fully developed baby-adults, a talking serpent, and...
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