When We Understand The Text
Are you looking for some good new years resolutions? Well consider these words from Jonathan Edwards: #25 Resolved: to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt of the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it. #28 Resolved: to …
Surely you’ve seen the COEXIST bumper sticker before: suggesting that Muslims, Hippies (I guess), the sexually confused, Jews, Wiccans, Taoists, and Christians should be more tolerant each other. Before it looked like the Coexist logo you see on most VWs, first it included only the symbols for Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. It was made …
There’s a word you won’t find in your Bible, yet you’ll find the subject all over your Bible: theology. What does theology mean? Augustine was perhaps the first to use the word, theologia in both Greek and Latin, which he defined as “reasoning or discussion concerning the Deity.” Now, people often say things like, …