The two most popular reading plans I have come across for the book of Psalms, in order to finish the book in 30 days, are to read five psalms per day. One way to do this is to read it straight through, five psalms per day (e.g. 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20, etc.). The advantage of this plan is that it is fairly straightforward and simple, and easy to keep track where you are.
Well, I haven't posted in a while, but I wanted to share a sermon I gave at New Springs Church, in Holly Springs, NC, where my good friend Ron Tutor is the pastor.
Here's the link to the page the sermon is at:
http://newspringschurch.podbean.com/2011/08/03/understanding-the-fall-gen-41-8/
Andy
PS…There's a big pop about halfway into the sermon when the microphone box fell off my belt! Maybe it'll make you jump!
Got an e-mail a few days from the folks at the ETS on when I could be presenting my paper. For those of you going in November, I'll be presenting a paper called "Hearing Psalm 102 within the Literary Context of the Hebrew Psalter." Right now I'm scheduled to present on Nov 17 at 11:00. The paper will be a shortened version of one I read at the TST Biblical seminar in March. If you want to read the full version, click on "Papers" above and you will find it.
I think this is the twelfth post in the chain blog first started by Alan a few weeks ago (all other links and rules at the bottom). It’s been a great time reading through all the posts, and in the latest one by Alan he challenged us to move forward a bit and really start looking at what some legitimate reasons for dividing the body of Christ. Two posts have been given in response before me. In the first, Jonathan argued that maybe we are looking at division from the wrong angle. Perhaps we really are united as one church, even if there are differences in some doctrines and practices. It’s up to us, individually as laypeople and leaders to agree that we are one. The second post, by Fred, argued differently, that in order for us to be united we need to make Jesus Christ our center. All our divisions are the result of taking our focus off of Jesus.
gospel, a gospel which perverts the grace of God into sensuality and denies Christ, was worthy of being cursed, worthy for condemnation. From early on, then, it seems that the church had to carefully guard this faith.
the line between eliminating certain beliefs from orthodox Christianity (such as Arianism) and allowing differing positions on certain aspects of the tradition which differences are acceptable.
A couple of days back my friend Alan Knox began a "chain blog" on the topic of divisiveness in the Church. It's not so much a place where different bloggers get to voice off about their positions on certain divisive issues (e.g. eschatology, Calvinism, etc), but a place where we are trying to look more at the positive and negative sides of the divisions themselves. How are we to handle Church division? Is right to ever divide? What are things to divide over (in love), and other things that we can agree to disagree about, but still be apart of the same assembly of Christians? These are all important questions and so far a number of bloggers have responded with some great insight into the topic:
Just wanted to post a link to Stephen Dempster's review of John Sailhamer's "The Meaning of the Pentateuch." As a former Sailhamer student, I found his summary spot on, his praises due, and his criticisms enlightening and challenging. You can read it here. Also, if you haven't heard of Stephen Dempster, or if you have yet to read any of his books or articles, I really do encourage you to do so. His book "Dominion and Dynasty" was a major influence in my thinking about the OT and its message. He's also published several great articles:
I want to begin this note with a preface. First, the good part: this is my 100th post! Who would have guessed it would have been about this topic! Thanks to all you who actually read these posts. Continue to comment! Now, more seriously. I am not an ethicist. I know that there are still holes in the way I think about the function of governments, their rights to take action for the protection of their citizens, and also in the ways I think about my own nationalism as an American and my commitment to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I take seriously my citizenship in the kingdom of God, and want to honor YHWH in all that I do. In what follows, I am offering my thoughts on where the rubber meets the road in all these areas. I'm not arrogant enough to think what I say is right, but I do think I'm raising some interesting points that will hopefully lead into further discussion. I'm writing these things to get my ideas flowing, hoping to receive some different points of view and insight that will help me better think about these things. Some aspects of my ideas I'm happy with, but others I think are somewhat weak. I invite you to challenge me, and hope that our discussion will help us think more biblically about our response. Now, to the post.
I finally read (well, listened to the Audio Book of) Rob Bell's Love Wins. It clarified a lot of things for me, and helped to either dismiss some of the criticism of the book as hearsay or misrepresentation, or confirm some of the criticism.
While doing some initial research for a summer course I found a homily by Jerome of Psalm 15 that I thought to share.
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