In previous blogs I reached the conclusion that when the NCFIC calls the church a family of families they are talking about their “philosophy of ministry.” Here is what I said: “To make a long story short, I hear Scott and Voddie affirming that when they say the...
Brief survey of the history of hermeneutics – 4. Excursus
The Hermeneutical Task of the Second-Century Church
The Supper tells everyone who has faith in Christ, “All that He is for sinners, He is for you!”
The Supper tells everyone who has faith in Christ, “All that He is for sinners, He is for you!”
An other-planetly hermeneutic?
In one sense, believing the Bible contains its own hermeneutic is other-planetly. It is pre-critical, pre-enlightenment, neither modern nor post-modern.
MSNBC’s Martin Bashir on The Paul Edwards Program
Bashir says he does attend Keller’s church, married to a Christian woman, and is a committed Christian.
Ephesians 1:4 – Where does the phrase “in love” belong?
If this is so, then what Paul is saying is that election is unto holiness and blamelessness in the special, eschatological presence of God where there will be love exhibited for God and man like never before.
Brief survey of the history of hermeneutics – 3. Patristics
Clement of Rome and Ignatius of Antioch
Family-Integrated Church 8: Are We Guilty of a Messianic View of the Christian Family? (Continued)
What do I mean? I mean that the Bible is first of all about the gospel of Christ. There is one Messiah, and he alone is the hope of the world. He alone is the hope of our children. Our Christian families are not the hope of the world. The hope of the world in any...
Lawson’s rebuke of Osteen
Steve Lawson, Joel Osteen, Larry King
some thoughts on interpreting the Confession
Like the Bible, the Confession is often self-interpreting, latter statements shedding interpretive light on former statements and former statements upon latter. Unlike the Bible, however, the self-interpreting phenomena of the Confession are not infallible. Like the...
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