Ephesians

While the standard issue retreat ended up not happening, I did some background research on Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians over the last 8 or 10 months. Here is the resulting outline. You’ll notice it’s mostly just a book report of Hoehner’s Ephesians commentary – he was the most recent of the commentaries that I [...]

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Speaking, Speaking, Speaking, Speaking, Speaking in Code

Previously, I delved into my views on the Biblical concept of speaking in tongues. In brief, the charismatic understanding of “tongues” is something of a ubiquitous swiss army spiritual language. Having no intrinsic earthly meaning, this language is something heavenly, channeled through an earthly medium, conveying some divine concepts. I am opposed to this understanding. [...]

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Begotten Not Created

I’m going to join a church, officially. It’s something of a big deal over there in the erudite PCA, and so SPEP has us taking a 13 week course on the core beliefs of the church, which lean heavily on the reformed theology of John Calvin and friends. Today was my first class (though they [...]

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Exegetical

I’d appreciate any grammar or theological critiques on these two writings. There will be a third within the week. Jonah 1 Jonah 2 As always, the pagans are welcome to cavort around for the sake of seeing their words in writing.

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Wax On, Wax Off

This is what happens when I try to wax epic. Ready, attack! Money is a thing. Before we can understand how we need to view this thing or any “things”, we need to understand how we should view our world in general. We rent this universe from a God who created it and us within [...]

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Rolling the Dice

You know how I mention that a have a few entry buffer in case I don’t write one of these for a full week? Well, I didn’t write one this week, and I’m currently so diverted writing one now is not possible. Furthermore, I think I’m going to diverge from my past New Testament walk-through [...]

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Surrender

This week’s exerpt (sp?) is Matthew 10:38,39. It’ll put hair on your chest. Unrelated,

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Denial

One of the best parts, for me, about this exegesis series is that I write them 2 or 3 weeks before I post them. This means I am detatched from the content before I post it making me not nearly as emotionally attached to my works as I might have been if I posted them [...]

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Foxes, Birds, Bees, Tress

For your ignoring pleasure, here’s Matthew 8:20. Let’s all hope it meets Lara’s high emotional standard. What if I used exclamation points more? Or if I used caps. Or maybe little pink letters when I talk to people over IM. Would I be more emotional then?

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Today, Tomorrow, And So On

Keeping with my current weekly tradition, here is Matthew 6:33,34. Shortly after this particular digestion, I began to write in a less orderly and structured manner, meaning this may be the last cookie-cutter exegesis in a while. I do not foresee this as being a bad thing.

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Peg Fitting

As part of Grace Community Church’s Old Testament Challenge initiative, we looked at Genesis 1-2 yesterday. Specifically, chapter 1, verses 1-5: 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering [...]

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Weekly Edification

And now, for your viewing pleasure, Matthew 5:44,45. Even the incessant, almost rhythmic barking of the dog across the street cannot dim God’s glory at the moment. Seriously, you should consider looking into it, it’s good stuff.

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Exegesis

A few weeks ago, I decided that I was going to start posting digestions of biblical verses on this site. Every time I read through the Bible, I focus on something different. The last time through the New Testament, I wrote down verses which I found particularly useful, for the sake of pseudo-memorizing them. In [...]

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