When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was [...]
Entries from December 2007
Holy Innocents Day December 28th 2007
December 28th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Commentary · History · Ministry and Outreach · Society · Theology
The Subversive Message of Christmas - Jesus Christ Is Messiah
December 25th, 2007 · No Comments
Luke 2: 1 - 20
The Christmas story must not be relegated to the status of a cute bedtime story for children… Though Luke’s account records an inauspicious story in the regions beyond the seats or world power either then or now, Luke’s narrative is the proclamation that God Himself is sending the Messiah of Israel. [...]
Tags: Christ Is All · Commentary · Theology
On Being A Shepherd
December 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
By Dr. Phil Corr (c) 2007
The Bible has much to say about the imagery and reality of being a shepherd. In both the Old and New Testaments we read of those who shepherd their flock, especially sheep. The word “pastor” means “one who shepherds”.
The Bible tells us that God is our shepherd. [...]
Tags: Devotion and Worship · Ministry and Outreach
Marsden on the Formative Spiritual Life of Jonathan
December 17th, 2007 · No Comments
By Dr. Phil Corr (c) 2007
In George Marsden’s authoritative biography of Jonathan Edwards, Marsden devotes almost nine pages (50-58)to Edwards’ spiritual life after Edwards’ conversion. The following are some quotations relating to this important period in the life of Jonathan Edwards.
“Probably in late fall 1722, perhaps in response to the difficulties in sustaining high [...]
Tags: Devotion and Worship
Why Muslim Background Believers Turn To Jesus Christ And What We Should Remember This Christmas
December 15th, 2007 · No Comments
The President of the United States as this is written is George W. Bush. A mainline Christian with a Methodist background who states repeatedly that “Islam is a religion of peace” and that “we all worship the same God”, he well represents the mainline’s ignorance of the issues revolving around Islam.
This represents no special discrimination [...]
Literacy, Orality, and the Future of the Mainline
December 10th, 2007 · No Comments
Tex Sample warned us.
For years the “progressive” seminary professor has been talking about the “oral culture” that characterized the “working class” of “Blue Collar” people. Reaching them, he rightly reasoned, would require the mainline to adapt to that “oral culture” that spoke the language of people who thought using Prayer Books, for example, was too [...]
Tags: Ministry and Outreach
Gerstner on Edwards
December 9th, 2007 · No Comments
Editor’s Note: The “Blank Bible” was an interleaved Bible containing Edwards’ notes … each page of the Biblical Text was “interleaved” with a blank page for taking notes. It reflected years of study and thought on Edwards’ part. While it has become a fruitful field for study in its own right, it reminds us that [...]