I do this assignment to prove they have what it takes to discover more if they learn to look for it. Secondly, and most importantly, is that Scripture is inexhaustible. We should never get too comfortable finalizing Scripture with a sermon. We must dig up more divinity where we are preachi...
loving interpretation of scripture that reveals the Kingdom of God but threatensthe privileges of power.9When he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By whatauthority are you doing these things, and who gave you th...
A nation’s right to control its borders, however, is not hateful or extreme. In my latest Bible study at Truthtellers.org I present examples from Scripture that powerfully indicate that God sanctions the right of founding races and cultures to uphold the general ethnic character of their na...
The denial of complementarianism undermines the church’s practical embrace of the authority of Scripture (thus eventually and inevitably harming the church’s witness to the Gospel). The gymnastics required to get from “I do not allow a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man,”...
Augustine’s sermons on the Psalms of Ascent, part of the Enarrationes in Psalmos, are a unique entry in the venerable tradition of those writings that aim to help us ascend to a higher reality. These sermons transform the ascent genre by giving, in the place of the Platonic account of ...
2. Scripture, Science, and the Measure of the Invisible As illustrated in Figure 1, the equinoxes are where the ecliptic (the sun’s path) intersects the equator (the great circle midway between and perpendicular to the celestial poles). The solstices are the midway points between the equino...
.tha's Commentary on the Kiran. atantra. Volume 1: Chapters 1–6. Critical Edition and Annotated Translation. Pondicherry: Publications de l'Institut français d'Indologie. Goodall, Dominic. 2004. The Para¯khyatantra. A Scripture of the S´aiva Siddha¯nta. A Critical Edition and ...