photo credit: Lance McCord
Baptists are going to insist that the proper mode of baptism is immersion; however, when it comes to the taking of communion, we are not equally insistent on the mode. Grape juice is often taken in place of wine despite the biblical usage of wine.
I guess one could argue, as is [...]
School started back up the end of this week…which means that the quotables will now start rolling in. Dr. McDaniel reminded us this morning (at 7:30am!) that during Jesus’ temptation, he pulled directly from Deuteronomy to combat the Adversary
“If your struggle against sin depended on your knowledge of Deuteronomy, how well would you do?”
It might [...]
…ordering one of my required textbooks for a seminary class from a popular online retailer, I notice that the first line of the book is the following:
“I did not plan to be a heretic. It just happened.”
Great! Let’s go Fall 2008: The Year Seminarians Become Heretics Unawares.
What I took away most from the evening with Shane Claiborne (Jesus for President Afterthoughts) was that Christians should be the change that we oftentimes rely upon a secular government to achieve, especially when there’s a divine mandate in Scripture to not only do but be those things. I agree with this. And when taken [...]
I blogged earlier in the week on going to see Shane Claiborne speak in Raleigh (Jesus for President: Shane Claiborne in Raleigh) on his new book Jesus for President. I knew that it was going to be unlike anything I’d seen or heard and that it was going to be strongly politically charged (e.g., “It’s [...]
I’ve finally finished Tim Keller’s The Reason for God and I only say “finally” because I’ve had 10ish pages to read for the past week or so which is not only annoying but embarassing. I found the book very helpful especially the attitude and grace with which Keller approaches the issues many in his New [...]
Shane Claiborne’s Jesus for President book tour continues this Tuesday (July 22) with a stopover in Raleigh at the First Baptist Church Raleigh which is apparently sponsored by the Triangle Mennonite churches.
It starts at 7:00pm and is free to everyone. I’ll be there and if you’ll be there, wear a red shirt so I’ll know [...]
Codex Sinaiticus Project website goes live July 24, 2008.
photo credit: Chris Kind
I guess it’s not too early to start thinking about going to the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Providence this November. As of the spring I’m now a member and this will be my first conference should arrangements proceed swimmingly. Online registration ($10 for students!) was supposed to [...]
BBC News has the story:
Archaeologists in Rihab, Jordan, say they have discovered a cave that could be the world’s oldest Christian church.
Dating to the period AD33-70, the underground chapel would have served as both a place of worship and a home.
It is claimed that it was originally used by a group of 70 persecuted Christians [...]
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