Today I had a student that I am mentoring who mentioned something I said in one of my classes: “Grace is life”. I had said this as part of my response to a student’s sermon addressing grace, but never defining it in any sort of substantial sense. It seemed taken for granted. I had offered… Continue reading Grace Is Life
Here it is… Wait for it… I LOVE pastoring and I love my congregation and I love my community! Okay. So that isn’t “dirty,” nor a “secret,” but it is about me. 🙂 I have found too often when speaking with pastors in an intimate setting that they either don’t love pastoring, or their church,… Continue reading A Dirty Secret About Me
חבקני אם (Mom hugs me) שקני אם (Mom kisses me) שקני אב (Dad kisses me) חבקני אב (Dad hugs me) כי בי אהבו רב מאד (And they love me very much) Note the chiastic structure of the first four lines where the verb in line one matches line four,* and line two matches line three. And the subjects of… Continue reading Cambria: The Hebrew Poet
One of the things which has long bothered me about “historical-grammatical” (HG) methods of interpretation is the sense that it presupposes itself to offer a “scientific” approach to Scripture. While the methods of HG can not simply be ignored in the context we find ourselves in (nor should they be)…they simply can not be allowed… Continue reading Beyond the Historical Grammatical Malaise
