Abusing Scripture: The Consequences of Misreading the Bible, Manfred T. Brauch. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009. Summary: The author explores the different ways we misread the Bible and consequently interpret and apply it in ways that abuse both the intent of the text, and sadly, in some cases the people with whom we apply these texts. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Abusing Scripture
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Book Review: Exiles From Eden
Exiles From Eden by Mark R. Schwehn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Summary: Schwehn chronicles a shift in the academic vocation from one of formation of the mind and character of students to one of making knowledge, reflecting a change from religiously shaped values to a valuing of formal and procedural rationality, and from an integral sense of self to a multiplicity of “selves.” … [Read more...] about Book Review: Exiles From Eden
Learning to wait on God in North Korea (Scholar’s Compass)
Pyongyang Metro, courtesy of David Eerdmans, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MetroPyongyang.jpg "What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own … [Read more...] about Learning to wait on God in North Korea (Scholar’s Compass)
Teaching with authority to the glory of God, Part 3 (Scholar’s Compass)
And they went into Capernaum; and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught. And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes. And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God." But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" And the unclean spirit, convulsing him … [Read more...] about Teaching with authority to the glory of God, Part 3 (Scholar’s Compass)
Teaching with loving authority, Part 2 (Scholar’s Compass)
And they went into Capernaum; and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught. And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes. And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God." But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" And the unclean spirit, convulsing him … [Read more...] about Teaching with loving authority, Part 2 (Scholar’s Compass)