by Brian | Mar 30, 2016 | Culture, Spiritual Life
How attentive are we to our entertainment choices, and how they effect us? Are we allowing the Holy Spirit to be our teacher and shepherd in this area? …Or, does our culture, and the currents of our day, just carry us along? A friend sent me this the other...
by Brian | Mar 29, 2016 | Hebrews, Monday Study Notes
Last night we continued our study through the letter to the Hebrews, looking at chapter 3 and most of chapter 4. Here it is: One of the things you realize as you read Hebrews is that the author is dealing with certain categopries, which, if we don’t have them in...
by Brian | Mar 26, 2016 | Theology
Why didn’t Jesus appear to everyone when he was raised, so everyone could, you know, know, it happened? Thomas Oden explains: Jesus appeared to numerous witnesses (Acts 10:40-41). But why not to everyone, instead of some? The resurrection in the sense is more...
by Brian | Mar 25, 2016 | Theology
Following on yesterday’s post…How huge is what we’re about to remember on Sunday? If true, the resurrection would have meant to beholders that God is finally revealed in his chosen Son. The promised kingdom is already appearing! It is a tenet of...
by Brian | Mar 24, 2016 | Theology
For Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, I’ll post short thoughts from Thomas Oden’s book Classic Christianity on maybe the most incredible, earth-changing thing to happen in all of history: the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Here’s the...
