Archive for July, 2008

The Wright View Of Resurrection

In April of this year, 2008, Veritas Forum brought N.T. Wright to Emory University. His talk was titled, Why Does Jesus’ Resurrection Matter? Considering Its Relevance for Today. If you would like to watch or listen to these two lectures click on the appropriate links below or go to the Veritas website to get them.

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Relevant Magazine: Burning Issue #5 – War

Relevant Magazine recently set out to determine and comment on the seven burning issues facing the church in this current day.  They propose that the #5 issue is War.  They ask “as Christians in the midst of a nation at war,  how do we respond.”  Their panelists (for bios click here) each give a few thoughts [...]

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Is The Life You’re Living Worth Christ Dying For?

An important question to ask.
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=42dce992d450b858b277

Based on this video, what do you think?

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Psalm 22 – He Has Done It

Many people suggest that Jesus’ cry of “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me” was the point where the Father could not be with his son because he had become the offering for sin for the world and God can’t be near that.  Though the reasoning sounds nice, it [...]

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Jewish Encyclopedia Entry on Jesus

I don’t know if you noticed this before or not, but it is interesting to see the perspective on Jesus from the Jewish Encyclopedia.  Here is the link.  Some of it is off obviously, but there are some interesting observations from the entry I thought were notable.
For example, regarding Jesus’ view of the Kingdom of [...]

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Christianity Today – “Tuning Out Christian Radio”

It’s official: I’m tuning out of Christian radio.
When some of the Christian radio stations in my area shifted their play lists from Southern gospel, country Christian and syndicated preaching, I took notice. I was thrilled to have airwave access to what I considered great Christian music. And I found myself tuning in more often.
But even [...]

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Freed To Serve

Thought this was a great sermon from yesterday’s service at Living Hope Community Church in Latham, NY taught by Rev. Vince Finnegan.  Visit their website at www.KingdomReady.org for more information.
The points that this sermon highlights are important for Christians to understand.  In the same way that Israel was freed from slavery so that they might [...]

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