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About blogging… I saw a post with TSK last week, and it worried me. It stated that too much posting is not good. Well, I’m guilty. Here’s what I try to do when I can keep it up: first, I like to record thoughts on some biblical text (I’m a Bible teacher, after all). Second,…

Here are two pictures from the Piemonte region. The first is the grocer who took care of us in every way, telling us which shops to visit and what kind of wines to purchase. On top of that, her two daughters made us lunch. And, now for the drumroll… look to the bottom right. The…

While in the Ligurian area of Italy, we learned how good basil (basilico) pestos can be. So, it was my intent when we returned to learn how to make a pesto properly, to good taste, and to learn how to use it with pasta and risotto. Monday I made a basil pasta, with an Italian…

This has been a stimulating week for me in looking at this age-old question: Was Mary perpetually virginal? Today I want to look at three pieces of biblical evidence on this question, sorting out what can be known from what can’t be known, and then drawing a conclusion.

Kris and I have had three meals with Ira Rounsaville‘s sauce, and we have to give it our heartiest recommendation, and I want to pass it on to you. Ira, if you remember, was at The Emmaus Community church where we were last Sunday. If you are interested in spicing up some fish, or some…

Romans 4:9-12 showed that circumcision came along after faith. Now Paul equates the circumcision of those verses with the “Law” (4:13). Law creates its own world as can be seen in this:

When I opened J. Frye’s Jesus the Pastor Wednesday evening for the next reading, I sighed because it was about “spiritual disciplines.” I remember the days when no one, and I mean no one I knew of, had ever heard such language. Then Richard Foster wrote his major book, Celebration of Discipline, and poof! everyone…

Tomorrow I’ll post my own view of Mary’s perpetual virginity. But today we need to look at Jerome, who is perhaps the first major theologian to deal with our question — was Mary perpetually virgin? He does so in polemics with Helvidius, both of whom were in Rome at about the same time, c. 383…

One of the reasons I’m blogging through this book is that it was written by a pastor, and it is important for me to understand more deeply what pastors think and do. Chp. 6 deals with the heart of pastoral vision: compassion. How compassionate are you? Here’s a definition for each of us:

Sorry, the title to this post is some old humor about circumcision. While 4:4-8 could be seen as the show-stopper for the New Perspective, 4:9 actually turns the lights on for its show. How so? Because, after positing a “faith” vs. a “reckoning” system, Paul turns the lights once again on Jewish privilege.
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