Category Archives: Bible
Matthew 10: Did the Twelve ever leave on their mission? And when did they come back?
I was reading Matthew 10 last night. Jesus sends out the newly appointed twelve apostles to the ‘lost sheep of Israel’ to announce that the kingdom of heaven is near. Some instructions follow, which are more familiar to me in … Continue reading
Filed under Jesus Christ, New Testament
Quotes from Disturbing Divine Behavio(u)r
Eric Seibert, Disturbing Divine Behavior, Fortress Press 2009. Is God really in the business of summarily executing those who are “wicked” and “displeasing” in God’s sight? If so, how does this fit with the ugly realities of the modern world? … Continue reading
Filed under Old Testament, quotes
Disturbing Divine Behaviour : a review part 2
Seibert’s solution to disturbing divine behaviour is a christocentric hermeneutic. He acknowledges that the New Testament itself has some trouble images of divine behaviour. But he insists that we can trust the depiction of Jesus in the New Testament and … Continue reading
Filed under book review, Old Testament, pacificism
Disturbing Divine Behaviour : a review, part 1
Disturbing Divine Behavior: Troubling Old Testament Images of God / Eric Seibert (Fortress Press, 2009) In this book, Eric Seibert tackles head-on a question which has long been in my mind: what are we to do with the troubling Old … Continue reading
Filed under book review, John Howard Yoder, Old Testament, pacificism
Beat your plowshares into swords
Yesterday the pastor asked if anyone had heard God speaking in worship, and someone said they had a verse from God. It was Joel 3:10. Read it carefully, it doesn’t say what you think it says at first: ‘Proclaim this … Continue reading
Filed under Old Testament, pacificism
Churches of reconciliation: the diverse church as good news for the world
Here’s the text version of the paper; the previous post offered a pdf version. WA TEAR Conference 19 September 2009 As TEAR people, you already know that the good news is more than personal salvation after you die. You know … Continue reading
Churches of Reconciliation: the Diverse Church as Good News for the World
Here’s the paper I gave at the TEAR conference yesterday: Churches of reconciliation I shall tell you more about it later in the week, but I told people it would be up here, so I thought I’d better make good … Continue reading
TNIV
I was just going to get around to finally buying a copy of the Today’s New International Version of the Bible and now I hear that Zondervan is going to discontinue it, after a vitriolic campaign against it by the … Continue reading
Filed under Bible, evangelicalism
‘God’s Genocide’: some not-so-sensitive campus evangelism
I am very disturbed by this poster that was seen around my university a few weeks ago. I’m a part time student, and I only saw the poster after the event, otherwise I would have gone to listen, mainly in … Continue reading
My big brown Strong’s Exhaustative Concordance, or how I think the Bible is being read badly
(I’m going to sound grumpy, but I’m not, I’ve just been thinking a lot about the use of the Bible.) It concerns me how badly the Bible is used by most evangelicals. Much of it stems from a failure to … Continue reading
