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Saturday Ramblings 6.9.12

Happy Saturday, iMonks! I hope this has been a happy week for you. Are you happy? I’m happy. The Oklahoma City Thunder are resting up for NBA finals, ready to bring the championship trophy to Oklahoma. Oklahoma? Yes, Oklahoma. The Synonymous Rambler is happy. SR has been at church camp all this week. As aContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings 6.9.12”

God Visits and Saves His People (Luke – 2)

First Things First Restoring the Gospel to Primacy in the Church Part Five: — God Visits and Saves His People (Luke-2) • • • We continue our overview of Luke’s Gospel. The Structure of Luke Luke is the longest book in the NT. However, the overall structure of the book is simple and clear. ItContinue reading “God Visits and Saves His People (Luke – 2)”

God Visits and Saves His People (Luke – 1)

First Things First Restoring the Gospel to Primacy in the Church Part Five: — God Visits and Saves His People (Luke-1) • • • Jesus-shaped Christianity will grow out of the soil of a Story-shaped Gospel. The more we immerse ourselves in the Story and get to know the Gospels, the greater the impact theContinue reading “God Visits and Saves His People (Luke – 1)”

Posting Problems

Hi everyone. I know many of you have been frustrated lately with your Internet Monk experience. I apologize for this and want you to know we are working to resolve the problems you’re having. Here’s a brief update. We’ve been having some server settings problems. In order to get to the server settings, we haveContinue reading “Posting Problems”

Reflections on Pastorum

I arrived home about 11:15pm after two full days of lectures on Biblical studies at the Pastorum Live Conference, sponsored by Logos Bible Software. Let me share a few reflections on this event. This was a return to seminary culture for me. The presenters were academics who mostly emphasized academic principles of properly handling theContinue reading “Reflections on Pastorum”

Pastorum…Pete Enns

One of the final presenters, called to “connect the dots” on what we’ve been learning at Pastorum is Peter Enns. I spent some time with Pete earlier in the day and will report on that tomorrow, but in this post, I will follow along and live-blog while he does his presentation. Pete has just takenContinue reading “Pastorum…Pete Enns”

Pastorum…Day Two

Live blogging from day two at Pastorum Live Conference in Chicago… Session one is Scot McKnight on Sermon on the Mount as Gospel. “The Gospel has been distorted and colonized.” Distortion: God loves me, God is holy, God made us in his image, but we rebelled against him, and are now destined to hell becauseContinue reading “Pastorum…Day Two”

Best Quote Ever?

I’m looking forward to spending some time with Peter Enns later today at the Pastorum Conference. In preparation, I took a look at his blog to see what he’s been writing about, and found this stunning quote from D.M. Williams. He has been running a series of articles on the Creed that Enns has beenContinue reading “Best Quote Ever?”

More Pastorum…Session Two

First speaker in afternoon: Dr. Michael Heiser, “How to Interpret the Bible Out of Context.” He blogs at Paleobabble. Michael Heiser suggests Paul saw his mission in terms of Gen. 11, Deut. 4, Deut. 32, Isa 66, Acts 2. Reclaiming the nations scattered at Babel. That’s why he wanted to go to Spain (Tarshish) —Continue reading “More Pastorum…Session Two”

Live from Pastorum Conference…

From CM: I will be live-blogging from the Pastorum Live conference in Chicago today. Feel free to check in throughout the day and ask questions as I share what I’m hearing, my impressions, and my interactions with others. * * * Arrival I left Indy just before 7am ET and arrived at Park Community ChurchContinue reading “Live from Pastorum Conference…”