Posts Tagged ‘truth’
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I want to apply some Holy-Spirit-guided hermeneutics to the questions of divorce and abortion.
Divorce
First, what does the Bible say about divorce? Nothing. Unless you wear a veil that blocks out the Holy Ellipses. In that case, you will see a fair bit. For example, in the Old Testament, there are a lot of laws that [...]
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I just realized that I may have been focusing too much on the bad news. I’ve written about the fact that there are some professors here at our University who hold their students right up to the precipice of doubt and secularism by asking questions that challenge the Truth we learn in Sunday school.
Well, some [...]
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The good
I always thought home-schooling was the greatest thing since Sunday School. Here are a few of its many advantages:
They are isolated from evil influences.
They are exposed almost exclusively to the Truth. The way bank tellers are trained to recognize false bills is by being exposed only to real bills. They know to reject immediately [...]
The theme and the President’s activities
The theme of this years faculty retreat was our seven core values. The first of our seven core values is: “We are Christ-followers.” The first announcement was to tell us how the retreat was going to be organized. First, the new president would talk about the first value, then we [...]
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It has always annoyed me when some wacky group uses the name of Jesus to support their beliefs or actions. It’s as if everybody wants to claim that Jesus is on his side but few actually want to follow Him the proper way we conservative evangelicals do. I think people recognize subconsciously that [...]
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I’ve been learning a lot lately from Duane Litfin and other evangelical scholars about the Gospel and who Jesus is. Recently, though, I’ve been reading the Bible and I was troubled for a while. I read some of the books of the Bible called “The Gospels”. These are the first four books [...]
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China is always in the news these days and our University is a part of it. It was reported in our Seminary’s “Campus News” that GS (professor of theology at our Seminary’s west coast campus) traveled to Hong Kong and China in June, 2007.
The article quotes Dr. S making statements about Chinese culture and the [...]
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Someone sent out to our faculty a link to this article in Inside Higher Ed.
This started a discussion on the college faculty email list about diversity. Some of the comments by J H, a sociologist, really got me thinking. And just to let you know, Dr. H is now on notice in my book.
As is [...]
