If you have hung around Katie and me lately, you may have heard us geeking out about a series of kids DVDs called What’s in the Bible. The series creator, Phil Vischer, also created Veggie Tales. He decided that his previous creation was teaching kids to behave “Christianly” without actually teaching much about Christianity. Hence, […]
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One of the popular ideas you may see in mainstream media or hear in your UW Religion classes (disclosure: I’m just stereotyping and have no idea if that’s true) is that our modern notion of Christian theology would be unrecognizable to the early church. This is because, it’s said, the current makeup of the Bible
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I had to drive to Minneapolis twice in the past couple of weeks. The second time was alone, which makes the drive much longer. But it did afford the opportunity to do two things: visit Loome Theological Bookstore (highly recommended) and listen to one of my favorite books: Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It is
This morning I was thinking back over the sermons in Exodus that we have been hearing and thought that there were some really good applications from those sermons related to money. Here are my thoughts. In Exodus 14 the people of Israel are trapped between the Red Sea and Pharaoh’s army. The situation looked hopeless.
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Often around the Christmas and Easter holidays a popular media story will appear promising to reveal “What’s REALLY in the Bible” or “Who the REAL Jesus Was” or “What Early Christianity Was REALLY Like.” In fact, I think I mentioned this during a sermon in early November. The implication is usually that the Bible we
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