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This week the following verses (6:4-5), from the beginning of the week, struck me:

In one brief prohibition: If you have written a book, don’t create a blog to market your book. Now an explanation:

My writer from St. Louis asked three questions: 1. Why the move from seminary to undergrad? 2. What do you like most about undergrad teaching? 3. What type of person would you say would make the best undergrad prof? Yesterday we dipped into the first one — and today I’d like to focus on the…

The man, with his love back with him, extols her physical beauty once again.

I’ve been asked this question so many times I’ve stopped estimating. Recently a seminary student from St. Louis wrote to me with these three questions, and I said I’d finally answer these questions on the blog:

Some people study the Gospels to focus on the author’s shaping of the message — so they talk about how Matthew or Mark or Luke or John “tell the story of Jesus.” For over a century scholars have contended that behind each of the storied presentations in the Gospels was a real Jewish messiah. About…

The following lines are a puzzle for interpreters. Who is saying these words?

You might see in Mark Noll’s defining characteristics of 18th Century Pietism — Spener, Francke, Zinzendorf — a glimmer of the emerging movement. (Mark Noll, The Rise of Evangelicalism.) For those of you know care about historical movements like this, tell me what you think. How might the emerging movement be seen as a 21st…

Hi Scot It’s the graduation season again and there are a couple of students in our small church that are finishing high school. Along with the usual card and money I always like to give a book (many times of which I am certain has not been read. . . .yet!). As I was considering…

The man, having extolled the beauty of his lover as that of a royal city decked out with heavenly splendor and creating awe — like encountering God — now extols her beauty:
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