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Oct 27, 2010 · This book has several notable strengths. The first is that it is full of evenhanded, plainly articulated biblical theology. Here are several examples: Wright’s concise summary of the biblical narrative and its theological implications in chapter 2 forms an integrative foundation for a biblical worldview.
Aug 2, 2002 · Ed Welch has given his book a relatively innocuous title, When People are Big and God is Small, but the pages of the book are filled with anything but benignity. Welch’s book is a discussion of a sin that is common to everyone probably in one form or another—the fear of man. This has been a popular topic even in secular psychology lately ...
Feb 25, 2015 · The Bible contains the stories of the people of God when they lost all of that. People torn away from their land, torn up as a people, and torn down by humiliating loss. This is the meaning of the exile in the last sections of the Old Testament in which Israel in the north is destroyed by the Assyrian empire, and Judah in the south is taken ...
Jan 19, 2023 · Likewise, notice the phrase “biblical concept.” This already weights the discussion toward Big Idea preaching. I think Robinson’s definition is too exact. I would say that expositional preaching involves reading the Word of God, clearly, and then giving the sense, so that the people understand the reading (Neh. 8:8).
Jun 5, 2020 · The book begins by introducing us to spiritual disciplines and their necessity for godliness. Then it follows with eleven chapters on ten spiritual disciplines: Bible intake (two sections), prayer, worship, evangelism, serving, stewardship, fasting, silence and solitude, journaling, and learning. It concludes with an encouraging note on ...
Mar 16, 2013 · Genesis 3:4 states, “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”NIV. Heady stuff, being God-like. It’s the venomous nature of Satan himself. And we fall prey to it every day.
May 30, 2013 · In Philippians 1:15, 17, Paul impugns the motives of those who were preaching out of envy, strife, and selfish ambition, trying to cause him distress in his imprisonment. I do not know how Paul knew their motives. He must have had solid evidence. If you don’t, you’re on shaky ground to judge another person’s motives.
