Common Denominator

I didn't realize how hot this issue apparently is for some Wesleyans. Of course I've always assumed that the Wesleyan base was so op...

I already mentioned that I'm reading through Richard Hays' Moral Vision of the New Testament this semester. This past week I read hi...

Steve deNeff spoke on the turning of water into wine this morning in church. His topic wasn't on drinking but since it was there he did ...

For most evangelicals, the texts of Leviticus, Romans, 1 Corinthians, and 1 Timothy are pretty obvious in meaning in relation to homosexual ...

I'm basically through the first two chapters of Simon Gathercole's new book. I've met Simon casually but I wasn't exactly su...

I'm a little sorry these posts have been coming almost one a day these last few days... I just seem to have had a lot of thoughts. Our p...

My Hebrew seminary prof is leading a J term course in Israel and managed to get to Shiloh and a rock's through away from Shechem (deep i...

I posted this on Scot McKnight's blog the other day. _________________ ... I do sympathize with Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) at l...

I've decided to add book links on the right in relation to books I'm reading and links to my books at the very bottom. In addition ...

A number of MSNBC commentators tonight, including Pat Buchanan who supports the president's surge in Iraq (although he thought the initi...

I'm posting this to see what comes of it. Maybe someone who works for Blackboard will find it and get to work. Maybe they're already...

It will be interesting to see how Bush's speech tonight will be viewed with the hindsight of history. It has to be the first or second m...

Today I came across the title of an older book by prolific writer Bart Ehrman, chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the Universit...

Next year is the quadrennial General Conference of The Wesleyan Church. I'm not sure what all the resolutions will be that the various ...

I'm preaching tomorrow at College Wesleyan. Cheesy title: It's 2007, but the Kingdom's a Comin' The goal is to combine remem...

I have never taught a Bible course that I have been really satisfied with. Much of it is my difficulty in getting feedback back. But there...

My wife Angie has really gotten into art these last few years. Two of her Christmas presents were a book of Dali's art and a large pictu...

I thought I'd put a pulse through the blog since I arrived back home last evening. I'm missing the Gathering in Orlando this week--...

Most of us who grew up going to church have absorbed far more than we might think. We have picked up "the rules" for how and how n...

More than anything else, our experiences of life drive us to seek a word from God. Our search for direction, our drive to make sense of it a...