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God’s Provision through People
Read more: God’s Provision through PeopleTo continue my series on Ruth (after Part 1 and Part 2), I’ll be sharing some thoughts from chapter 3. Ruth 3 is the climax of the story. It’s when Ruth boldly goes to the threshing floor in the middle of the night and lays at the feet of Boaz. She takes a huge risk…
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Review of Philippians (Story of God Bible Commentary Series) by Lynn H. Cohick
Read more: Review of Philippians (Story of God Bible Commentary Series) by Lynn H. CohickLynn H. Cohick, Philippians. The Story of God Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2013. 320 pgs. Hardcover. Retail $29.99 Cohick’s new commentary on Paul’s epistle to the Philippians is one of two, along with a commentary on the Sermon on the Mount by Scott McKnight, to be released in a new popular level series…
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Aberdeen Ethics Conference
Read more: Aberdeen Ethics ConferenceThe University of Aberdeen (in Scotland) will be hosting a conference on the legacy of the Reformation, entitled, The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist. It looks like a fantastic conference and if I hadn’t just moved across the pond I’d be very keen to check it out. The conference will be held 24–25 October, 2014…
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Insider Movements: A Response to Dave Garner
Read more: Insider Movements: A Response to Dave GarnerThis past week a few people alerted me to Dave Garner’s article on The Gospel Coalition website regarding Insider Movements (IM). While I strongly agree with Dr. Garner’s overarching assessment of IM, certain aspects of the essay needed further clarification and elaboration. It is my hope that this rejoinder can further the discussion on IM…
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Keswick Conference 2014 Musing
Read more: Keswick Conference 2014 MusingThis past week my family and I had the great blessing of attending a famous Christian conference that has been held for over 139 years in the same place here in the UK. The conference itself is named after the city of Keswick which is situated right in the middle of the Lake District, one…
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Review of Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction by Nicholas M. Healy
Read more: Review of Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction by Nicholas M. HealyNicholas M. Healy, Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014. 154 pages. Softcover. Retail $23.00. Few contemporary theologians have situated their own projects so explicitly against the “many-faced and historically ambiguous phenomenon” of modern liberalism (whether of the theological or the political varieties) as Stanley Hauerwas.[1] It is no…
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An Exciting Christianity
Read more: An Exciting ChristianityAs one who works with youth, I often feel the pressure or need to spice up the Christian story and make it more engaging, relevant, or fun. In much of the literature that is deemed “Youth Ministry” or in some of the examples set forth as “successful youth ministries,” what works is when the Christian…
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Review of The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature edited by Jean-Sébastien Rey
Read more: Review of The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature edited by Jean-Sébastien ReyRey, Jean-Sébastien, ed. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 102. Leiden: Brill, 2014. 355 + xvi pages. Hardcover. €121.00 This volume, the latest installment of the prestigious and important Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah series, is devoted to the question of…
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Gleaning and Giving
Read more: Gleaning and GivingI’m going to continue with thoughts from the study of Ruth, as I started in my last post. These past two weeks, I’ve been leading the study on Ruth 2. In this chapter, we are introduced to Boaz’s character, and we see him as being a worthy man, inquires about Ruth, meets her, and generously…
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Review of Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme by Stephen Westerholm
Read more: Review of Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme by Stephen WesterholmThere continues to be a swirl of popular interest in the now not-so-new “New Perspective on Paul.” In Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme, Stephen Westerholm attempts “to update and to make more widely accessible earlier work” (viii), and thus demonstrate why he has not been persuaded by recent “revisionist” readings of Paul. The concise…