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Author Archives: Rick Wadholm
How NOT to Interpret the OT Law
The Resurgence has posted The Beginner’s Guide to Interpreting Old Testament Law and offered the commonly received Reformed categorization of the Torah as ceremonial, civil and moral. The problem is that this is an external distinction not found in the … Continue reading
Posted in Interpretation, Law
Tagged biblical womanhood, Bibliotheca Sacra, Hermeneutics, j daniel hays, Old Testament, old testament law, Torah
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Talking Smack: The Bible Way
Luke Geraty just blogged about “talking smack” in video games, which brought to my mind some of the “Biblical” smack-talk that I have found humorous over the years. Here is a small sampling: Philistine smack talk: “Come on,” said the … Continue reading
Posted in humor
Tagged baldhead, Humor, Jezebel, Philistine, seventy seven, Smack talk, Video game
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Do We Really Need the Old Testament?
As someone who serves as an Instructor in Old Testament at one college (Providence University College and Theological Seminary) and an Assistant Professor whose primary focus is in Old Testament at another college (Trinity Bible College), this question has significant … Continue reading
Asking for Blessing or Giving Thanks?
In a recent conversation, I noted a particular question that was posed about “blessing the food” when we gather to eat. Here are my reflections: We do not ask for the food to be blessed, per se, but we bless … Continue reading
Posted in Prayer
Tagged Blessing, children of god, Food, God, grace and mercy, hostess twinkies, Jesus, Lord Jesus, maker of heaven and earth, Twinkie
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Why Am I Still Preaching? A Conversation
Steve Swan (a friend who pastors in Winnipeg) nails it: Why Am I Still Preaching?. I’ve said something similar in a paper I presented for the Society for Pentecostal Studies that has been picked up for an edited volume in … Continue reading
Posted in Pentecostal, preaching
Tagged Emergent Church, Emerging Church, Homiletics, Pentecostalism, Preaching
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Rediscovering the Mission of God in Scripture
The following is what I will be presenting and handing out for a family camp I’m speaking at tomorrow morning. What would you say if you were asked to speak on the topic of giving a brief (hour and a … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Wright, Mission of God, N. T. Wright
Tagged Biblical Studies, grand narrative, history, IVP Academic, Missions, Zondervan
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A free book for seminarians (or those soon to be).
Playing with Gadamer
“What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now.” (Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method [trans. Joel Weinsheimer and Donald Marshall; 2nd … Continue reading