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Faith Is Not Having
The last posting about faith was prompted by an article by Andrée Seu Peterson in World Magazine. She mentions as aspect of faith of which I had not thought. She observes: “In fact, psychologically speaking . . .faith is always … Continue reading
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What is Faith?
What is faith? When asked many would recall the humorous story of the little boy who replied: It is believing in something you know is not true. As with most humor, there is an element of truth in this little … Continue reading
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Political and Religious Discourse
Janie B. Cheaney’s article “The real idiocracy” in World Magazine is spot on in describing what passes as discourse in politics these days. We don’t discuss ideas we congratulate ourselves on how right we are and we note how sad … Continue reading
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Marriage
The apostle Paul, in Romans 7:1-6 and Ephesians 5:22-33, compares the relationship in a marriage to the relationship of Christ to those who follow him. The Old Testament prophets also compared a marriage relationship to Israel’s relationship with God (e.g. … Continue reading
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Criticism
None of us like to be criticized because it implies a failure on our part. However, all of us, including us Christians, are finite. We also are less than perfect. This means we will make mistakes. How do we handle … Continue reading
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St. Paul’s Approach to Other Religions
I recently completed reading a book that was written in the late 1890’s namely St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen by W. M. Ramsay. It is a book about the book of Acts and like Acts a major … Continue reading
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What Is in a Name?
The high school from which I graduated is a boarding high school. Recently they built a new girl’s dorm and decided to name it. Why do we name things? Because names define things, they define the characteristics of things, they … Continue reading
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Recently at the annual Mid-America Prophecy Conference in Tulsa, OK, one speaker warned against ‘false prophets’. [1] What is a false prophet? A false prophet is “a self-appointed person who does not for speak for God and who deceives people … Continue reading
Tradition or Empiricism
Last week we discussed that in many cases the translation of the Bible is more of an interpretation of the Bible than a translation. The past couple of weeks I have been reading a book on a totally different subject—about … Continue reading
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Bible Translations
When we read our Bibles, most of us to do not consider the process that is involved in translating the Bible from Hebrew or Greek into English. Leland Ryken in his book The Word of God in English gives us … Continue reading
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