Using Peter to Interpret Joel
There are some Christians who will go to the mat telling you that you should always interpret the New Testament by using the Old Testament. This actually makes a ton of sense. After all, the Old...
View ArticleTheology Thursday: Tongue-tied
Reading Acts 2 and talking through it with J & B (weekly Bible read-through discussion dudes), I'm still left a bit confused about what exactly the "speaking in other tongues" stuff actually means....
View ArticleTheology Thursday: Biblical Hilarity
After reading through the Bible a few times, I've noticed there are certain stories that just make me chuckle a little. Sometimes it's not anything truly funny, but rather something ironic or darkly...
View ArticleTheology Thursday: Thorn Clues
I mentioned previously that I might give a short blurb explaining what I believe Paul's "thorn" was. So, here goes (Yeah...short blurbs aren't really my thing). First, let's look at the passage where...
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Theology Thursday: Consistency and the Martian Chronicles
This is sort of half-book-review, half-theology. Just thought I’d warn you. I've recently been listening to Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. The work is a collection of stories detailing the...
View ArticleTheology Thursday: What Must I Believe to Be Saved?
I had an interesting conversation with my Esteemed Partner in Pavement Pounding the other day. He’d been reading about the Jehovah’s Witnesses and asked if I’d ever done any such reading. (My answer...
View ArticleMinor Thoughts on the Minor Prophets, Part I: Hosea
We interrupt your regularly-scheduled book review nonsense for a THEOLOGY POST!!!! Please try to remain calm. (For anyone new, I used to do about a theology post per week, normally titled Theology...
View ArticleAnother God? Another Jesus?
I listen to quite a bit of Christian call-in radio (Steve Gregg's The Narrow Path), and one question that consistently drives me crazy is, "Do people from Religion X follow a different Jesus / worship...
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