It’s hard to judge which fuel better expands the combustion of doubt and spiritual discouragement. On one hand people of faith become discouraged when they pray and serve and see little results. But the some thing worse than seeing no results is watching God work in mighty ways only to be disappointed when people [...]
Finding Contentment…
At the time of the series finale of HBO’s popular "Sex and the City," day time television’s Queen Bee, Oprah Winfrey, interviewed the four women who portrayed the main characters. Sarah Jessica Parker, who played infamous single girl, Carrie Bradshaw, was asked by Ms. Winfrey which leading man she wanted her character to end up [...]
Christianity and Class Attraction – The Strata of Religion
Chapter Two of The Rise of Christianity discusses the class basis of early Christianity. Rodney Stark challenges some basic assumptions about the demographics of new religions and what various classes look for in spirituality. For the last century sociologists and most historians have assumed that the early church was largely made up of the [...]
Favorite Things – A Reader’s Hebrew Bible
Today a book enters my “can’t live without” list previously dominated by entries such as Ashley, the Internet, Chinese delivery and Fabreese. A Reader’s Hebrew Bible makes reading the Hebrew Bible possible without carting a copy of HALOT around with you. It contains the complete text of the Hebrew and Aramaic Bible using the Westminster [...]
How the West Was Won – Ancient Conversion Rates
Chapter 1 My seminary experience was an exercise in acquiring tastes. Most significantly – from Peter Enns and Al Groves – learning to think about a God sovereign enough to control more of history than I had imagined, and from Carl Trueman - learning to give the Divine less credit than imagined – and [...]
I Hate Storms! Why I love Pete Enns
I always thought I would end up at Dallas Theological Seminary. – I was born in Dallas while my dad was getting his Th.M. there. I remember when I was in college, I started researching schools. I made a list – Dallas, Trinity, Gordon Conwell, Westminster. There was a guy speaking around Greenville named [...]
Mikey the Dog – Jumpes Around
I have a little doggy… he’s a bit crazy.
