Category: Church
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A CURRENT PROJECT: ROMANS
In the wee hours of the morning I worked on a forthcoming book my friend David Caddell and I have been working on for a couple of years. We hope to have it published this year. This morning’s post is the section I wrote today on the issue of sufffering from Romans 8:31-36. ___________________________ . . . Paul’s point is…
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GOD’S FIRE ON MY WINDSHIELD
Yesterday before the Bible lecture on Exodus I was cooking yummy chicken/noodle/vegetable soup. The problem was that I didn’t have enough vegetables to pull it off. So now I have to go to the store; but that is no problem. I head up to Save-A-Lot and buy frozen veggies and I also got some soda…
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GOOD PREACHER PART TWO–A RANT or WHO MOURNS FOR THE JEBUSITES
I am finally finding myself again after the flurry of activity around the holidays. Literally. This week I just found my November (yeah, you read that right, November) copy of Preaching magazine. It is one of my favorites—along with Christianity Today, Biblical Archaeology Review, and National Geographic. I hope to find my January BAR soon. …
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PERSPECTIVES ON A “GOOD PREACHER”
I’m finally catching up on my reading and was flipping through November’s Preaching magazine. There is a quick little article early in this edition titled “What Makes a Preacher ‘Good’” by Ben Mandrell. Mandrell lists six things that make a preacher good. 1. The preacher should give people a bigger picture of God. 2. The…