Why Teach?

Found while blogsurfing — here’s a poet who knows what it is to teach: Taylor Mali, four-time National Poetry Slam champion.  Whether you’re a teacher or a learner you will appreciate his thoughts. 
~ The Miracle Worker ~

 
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In Search of the Supernatural

“The fact that many people in the Western world go through their whole lives without witnessing a miraculous healing or other intervention of the supernatural is perhaps more a testimony to what the Western worldview will allow a person to see or experience than a testimony to the illusionary nature of the supernatural.” — deSilva, [...]

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Atonement for Ordination

(latest thoughts on the subject of going into ministry, ordained or otherwise)
Exodus 29:31-46 (edited): “Take the ram for the ordination and cook the meat in a sacred place. At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread… they are [...]

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The Woman at the Pharisee’s House

People often mention this as their favorite story in the Bible. See what you think…
Luke 7:36-50 NIV (edited) – “Now one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. When a woman who had lived a [...]

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Here’s an Amazing Concept or Two

Here’s some food for thought, better yet food for meditation, fed to us by our Systematic Theology professor a few days ago:
Concept One: “The Trinity is a community of love.” Again, spoken out loud, and very slowly: “The Trinity……… is a community…….. of love.” Let that sink in for a moment.
Then the next [...]

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The Trinity As Seen In the Apostles Creed

The Apostles Creed is made up of three short paragraphs, one each for each ‘person’ of the Trinity. So what does the Creed have to say about the Trinity?
First it identifies the three ‘persons’: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (or Holy Spirit, which is a more easily-understood term for modern ears). Christians do not worship [...]

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“Sarcastic Posters…”

…is another search term by which people frequently find this blog.  Go figure.
Actually, I know what it is they’re looking for.  The sarcastic posters are not on this blog.  I know where to find them but I’m not telling because they’re not very nice, and besides, sarcasm is the lowest form of humor.   You should [...]

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What Does “Intelligent Design” Really Say?

This is one of those subjects that you’re lucky if you can find two people in your entire hometown who can discuss it rationally, intelligently, without screaming themselves blue in the face. I’m pretty sure my blog-readers are those people in their respective hometowns.
As you all know, “Intelligent Design” is the most [...]

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Blogsurfing Find – Heere Bigynneth the Tale

It’s been a long time since I laughed out loud at a blog post.  Blogger iowahawk lampoons the Archbishop of Canterbury, Shari’a Law, and the whole ultraliberal crowd with the greatest of wit and in ye stiyle of ye goode manne Chaucer’s olde Englishe: Heere Bigynneth the Tale of the Asse-Hatte.  No special interest group is [...]

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“I Just Don’t Get Christianity”

The above comment came my way this past week and it made me stop and think.  Christianity doesn’t seem all that complicated to me, but then I’ve been around the faith for a long time.  What is it that gets in the way of people understanding the faith?  Organized religion?  Believers themselves?  A distorted view of Christianity learned [...]

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Blogsurfing Find: “My Yoke is Easy…”

I just came across an absolutely beautiful post on another blog.  I invite you to enjoy it with me.
My yoke is easy and my burden is light on The Upside Down World blog
BTW re: the title “Upside Down World” blog — it is so true — Jesus turns our concept of reality upside down.  It [...]

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The Archbishop of Canterbury Has Lost It

That’s all I can think of to say at this moment.   Breaking news from England is that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has said the introduction of Shari’a law into the UK’s system of government is “unavoidable”. 
For background see the following stories and posts:

News article: Archbishop of Canterbury’s inept intervention, Telegraph.co.uk 

Opinion: “Holy Smoke” by [...]

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“What Is Truth?”

I recently heard someone say this is the greatest theological question of our time, and I agree.  In fact I’d go a step further and say it is the greatest issue of our time, bar none.
Most of us, at least those of us who attended school after the “swinging 60s” (which is by far the [...]

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“Who Were the Twelve Disciples?”

OK now there’s a reasonable question if ever there was one.  We who were raised in the church all know that Jesus’ hand-picked trainee group was made up of twelve men.  Quick, can you name them?
It’s embarassing to admit the question stumped a few seminary students the other day, including myself.  We ended up having [...]

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Radical Christianity

“When we do not allow the Word of God to transform us in all areas of our personal and social life, we seem to validate the Marxist criticism of religion.” – John R.W. Stott
Evangelism and Social Responsibility: An Evangelical Commitment 
A Joint Publication of the
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization and the
World Evangelical Fellowship
The above quote caught [...]

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