Tag Archive: Doctrine

Fear the Jones – Where Do You Get Your Information?

We have all been guilty. Our self-selected source of authority on a given subject speaks and with something like blind acceptance we believe it all, proverbially hook-line-and-sinker. Ed Stetzer recently tweeted a long assumed quote from St. Francis was bogus. Many, like myself, offered an attributed quote to St. Francis to counter a ...

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Theology and Context – Bob “Good Point” Hyatt

N.T. Wright uses the "steering wheel" to make some good points about justification in his new book, Justification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision. Arguing for reading the words translated "righteousness" in the Old and New Testaments in their historic contexts, Wright suggests we may have found a shorthand word in justification that we are asking ...

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Torture and Christ Following – Evangelicals Suffering

We always enjoyed a good game of football on our block. There were not many of us but Mike was older and he made a great "all time" quarterback for the games we younger fellows played. Occasionally Mike would think it cool to "torture" us. Sure, we may have annoyed him immensely. He would pin ...

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