I’m yet to write on Witherington in our Scripture series, but I thought I’d take a brief look at a new article from the 9Marks e-journal. In it, Gregory Wills asks, What lessons can we learn from the history of liberalism?
Divine Endurance is one of my favourite novels. Like Neuromancer, its elegant balance of sci-fi and fantasy makes for a vivid world.
Some of my most vivid devotional experiences have come in the simplicity of children’s music. Driving with a friend in Sydney recently, we listened to Colin Buchanan’s ‘Jesus Rocks the World’ for the sake of our friend’s daughter. Normally I find Colin’s music pretty folksy and his lyrics a bit […]
The word of God is authoritative and can be trusted to do the work God has set out for it. But how exactly do we expect that to happen? The answer to such a question will have profound implications for evangelism. Let me put forward two extreme positions:
In my last post, I looked at Dunn’s concept of the word of God interpreted by the Spirit and asked how the messiness of that works out in experience. Fortunately, Dunn answers some of these questions in the second half of the book.
Previously in this series I looked at the complicated question of how to define inerrancy. It’s all very well to say that the Bible contains no errors, but even Sproul seemed confused about whether that means the Bible is a scientific authority. Furthermore, how we interpret the Bible may have […]
Over the summer Arthur and I are trying to get our doctrine of Scripture sorted. It’s one of the questions we brought with us into college and being at such close proximity to the library, we figure now’s the time to do some reading! Over Christmas I finished R.C. Sproul’s […]
Meet Jesus at uni 