Seams From The Psalms
Friday, June 26th, 2009The Book of Psalms may look like a largely disorganized book of Hebrew poems but that’s not really the case. This apparent confusion comes from the fact that the Psalms have many different authors, speak of different situations and are not like historical narrative with a story that flows from chapter to chapter. One of [...]
Jesus\Solomon\Temple
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009I was just reading Solomon’s prayer of dedication when the temple he built was finished and it reminded me of somethings. I think this post is going to be more of a rambling brain dump than an organize, coherent post. You may want to avert your eyes! :) So Solomon dedicated the temple and prayed [...]
The Wexford Carol
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008I got YoYo Ma’s Christmas CD at Starbucks a few weeks ago and it was this song that most gripped me. The music is beautiful, the instrumentation is perfect and I love Allison Krauss’ voice. Her music is often rich with Christian thought. But the words to this carol caught me this morning: Good people [...]
Upon This Stone I Will Build…
Sunday, July 6th, 2008It is interesting what happens when a major archeological find is, uh, found. Sometimes it turns up more than the artifact. I’m not a follower of debates over Jesus, they’re just to speculative. So when a tablet was recently discovered that dates from the century before Jesus’ birth and describes a suffering messiah and might [...]
He Is Risen!
Sunday, April 8th, 2007He is risen indeed! Happy Easter. But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they [...]
Jesus’ Sonship
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, – Luke 1:32 (ESV) There is a lot packed into that one statement. Jesus is born of a virgin so technically he doesn’t have a father. But [...]
Merry Christmas
Monday, December 25th, 2006Today we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, who lived and died around 2,000 years ago. The promise of his coming is as old as mankind’s need of him. “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his [...]
Our Mother Jesus?
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006This is from an ex-Episcopalian and it is amazing. He makes the point that women in preistly orders is pretty much a done deal for the Episcopal church. That acceptance of homosexuality is a foregone conclusion. So when R. Andrew Newman saw a woman appointed to head the ECUSA he didn’t bat an eye. Till [...]
Oldest Church?
Monday, November 7th, 2005We need to take great care with these kinds of things until the archaeologists work through it all (remember the ossuary thought to be James’? Turned out to probably not be.) Okay, with that in mind, recently what is believed to be the oldest church building was discovered in, of all places, Armageddon! That should [...]
Jesus’ Descent into Hell
Monday, November 7th, 2005Though Calvin recognized that the phrase “he descended into hell” in the Apostle’s Creed was “once not so much used in the churches,” (Institutes, 2.16.8) he believed that it was an appropriate and necessary phrase. However, he comes short of actually saying that Jesus descended into hell. He says “it was expedient at the same [...]
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