One of our Sunday School students (4th grader, smart kid) asked a series of questions that included the length of life of the people in Genesis. A typical answer is something like – “well, how do things work when they are new vs. when they are old? So, a earth that had just become . . . → Read More: The length of days…
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The Pew Forum on Religion and Public life has a new survey out (this is the full pdf.) If you have read any of Prothero (this book is the closest on topic), the survey seems to be made to beat one of his drums – the desperate need for religious education. Of course that . . . → Read More: A couple of graphs spurred by a Pew Center Survey.  Comments are closed  Church Direction, Culture  attendance, magisterial, ministerial, Pew, reason, religious knowledge, schools
Full Text Many heirs of the reformation can get tangled in a web of worry about legalism and works righteousness. But it is not works righteousness to encourage Kingdom values. And that is what Jesus is warning about. Decisions we make today solidify in eternity. Nobody sets . . . → Read More: Missing the Obvious Tonight – 6:30 PM Projector, Popcorn and Bob & Larry. If you get it, you get it. If you don’t, don’t worry about it. See . . . → Read More: Veggie Tales Premiere – Its a Meaningful Life Having two of my own this article on raising boys who read struck a nerve, and yes I have to admit that I fail the Wii test. We have one. The eldest boy plays all the time, and youngest boy watches eldest boy. And yes, there is no way a book will ever . . . → Read More: Sanctification or Becoming Civilized Comments are closed Culture, Witness, Youth boys, freedom, freedom of the gospel, law, Philipians, reading, sanctification, virtue Most organizations or institutions do not make changes until they just stop functioning. Somewhere in a vague past the complexity and size that an institution had built up actually helped. Then it stops. But the institution can’t even think about operating in another way. That is the way we’ve always done things . . . → Read More: A Virtue of a Necessity Comments are closed Church Direction, Culture catholics, change, identity, institutions, leadership, organizations, schools, Truth Full Text The unjust manager is a confusing parable primarily because is isn’t a parable in the Sunday School “an earthly story with a heavenly meaning” way. It is more an argument from lessor to greater. Jesus is teaching his disciples, look at the people of the world (this generation). They know how it . . . → Read More: Kingdom Values Comments are closed Luke, Sermons curb rule and mirror, firstborn, law, law and gospel, new creation, parables, unrighteous steward, uses of law That title is from the philosopher Hegel and it shows up in all kinds of quackery from the Age of Aquarius to Gestalt to whatever movement someone else is pushing. It is a hardy perennial. Probably because we like finding patterns in things and we are social creatures – “it is not good for . . . → Read More: The Spirit/Saint of the Age Last week’s Sunday School and Bible class was basically Genesis 1 & 2. These also came up in the Thursday bible study. When your great hope is resurrection or re-creation, your understanding of the original creation becomes important. Also when as a protestant you rest on biblical authority, how you interpret is important. . . . → Read More: Genesis, theology, evolution and modernity This story was the original. This is a letter to the WSJ concerning it. It is a great mutt & Jeff or odd couple story. A military chaplain who “preaches about divine protection…rejects evolution and believes the earth to be 6000 years old. He carries a large KJV bible with him into a combat . . . → Read More: A Chaplain and and Atheist go… Comments are closed cross, Culture, Meditation, Word chaplains, leadership, military, proof, resurection |
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