The Great Story and the Single Verse
Posted in Jesus, News, TheologyIn my neck of the Christian woods, words like narrative, meta-narrative, story, storyline, biblical theology, and big picture abound. I would like to sound a note that may encourage some who, like me, may wonder how this language works to ...
You Like C.S. Lewis?
Posted in News, Theology, UncategorizedJoel Heck, Professor of Theology at Concordia University, Texas, has served us again by publishing rare materials relating to C. S. Lewis. In 2008 he published The Personal Heresy: A Controversy. And now he has published the Socratic Digest (Concordia ...
A Close Analysis of the Beatitudes
Posted in Series, Theology, UncategorizedProbably the best way to study these beatitudes would be to work through the basic process for each one--the definitions, the backgrounds, the connections and the applications. If you were teaching the beatitudes to a class you would do better ...
More Thoughts on Friends Who Fail You
Posted in TheologyThere has been arguments that sometimes friends forsake you never to return — like Demas. He loved “the present world,” and so abandoned the great apostle who craved the Lord’s appearing more than he craved the world (2 Timothy ...
“In, but not of”
Posted in Theology“In, but not of”— if you’ve spent much time Christian circles, you’re probably familiar with this slogan. In the world, but not of the world. It captures a truth about Jesus’s followers. There’s a real sense in which we are “in” this ...











