Sometimes, it becomes self-evident when a little knowledge of the scripture is worse than no knowledge at all. I have counted a fairly large number of times in the past month that I’ve read Christian blog debates where this has been demonstrated.
Person A will use one of Jesus’ parables, to which Person B – in [...]

Ingrid at Slice linked to this video of Mark Driscoll from the Mars Hill Church in Seattle, which sums up the notion of being culturally relevant without watering down the message. He does a concise job of pointing out how when we send out missionaries, we commend them for becoming culturally relevant (learning the [...]

(Normally, I don’t critique/summarize sermons, but this week’s Mars Hill sermon caught my attention, and in the end, convicted me and how I often place my priorities.)
This past weekend (September 24), Rob Bell taught a lesson, the Third (technically, Fourth) in a series entitled “Jesus Wants to Save Christians”, on the topic of Hell (this [...]

A number of people have recently asked me – directly and indirectly – why context is important in studying scripture. Or to be more accurate, why the original Hebrew context is important. In Rabbinic fashion (how appropriately), I would like to answer this question in the form of a story. One that many Christian readers [...]

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Wow.
That just about describes my reaction to the latest “miss”-ive from Ken Silva of Slice of Laodicea (SoL). If there are people on this earth that should not give a lesson on promoting unity in the body, I would include Ken right there at the top.
In today’s article, Ken writes:
Beloved, even though we will [...]

To the angel of the church in Thyatira write:
These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first. Nevertheless, I [...]

The Jordan is waiting for me to cross through
My heart is aging I can tell
So Lord, I’m begging for one last favor from You
Here’s my heart take it where You willThis life has shown me how we’re mended and how we’re torn
How it’s okay to be lonely as long as you’re free
Sometimes my ground was [...]

I have been praying for a while about a particular topic, waiting for when the Spirit to move me and let me know when the time is right. I have been ready to start this lesson several times, only to feel that “no, the time is not right, after all”.
Based on questions and discussions [...]

There’s been a good deal of buzz around the Christian blogosphere lately about the Emergent Church, the “emerging” church, postmodernism, hyper-legalism and everything in-between. In the process, I think some folks have missed a distinction between a purely postmodern approach to Christianity, which guts it of its meaning, and a Hebraic approach, which shares [...]