As the conference was in progress, JohnO and I were live-blogging and uploading the audios. However, I thought it would be helpful to have all of the talks in the same place under one post. In addition, I now have many of the actual papers which are useful to follow along with while listening to [...]
Click here to listen to My Story: To God Be The Glory presented by Joel Hemphill, Apr 30th 2008, Atlanta Georgia. Commentary by Sean Finnegan.
Famed gospel singer, Joel Hemphill, the surprise guest of the conference, delivered a riveting message about his story with God from his initial conversion at 10 years old to his recent [...]
Click here to listen to Looking for the Historical Jesus: In Between Evangelical and Liberal Scholarship presented by Sean Finnegan, Apr 29th 2008, Atlanta Georgia. To read the paper, which is much more extensive than the audio presentation, click here. Commentary by John Obelenus
Sean tells us a story of a girl he met in Borders. [...]
Click here to listen to Religion and Politics: A Fresh Look at Imperial Overtones in the New Testament presented by Dustin Smith, Apr 29th 2008, Atlanta Georgia. Commentary by John Obelenus
The thesis of Dustin’s paper is that Paul is using specific phrases and words traditionally used in the context of the Caesar cult (the worship [...]
Click here to listen to Yet Another Music City Miracle as presented by J Dan Gill, Apr 29 2008, Atlanta Georgia. Commentary by John Obelenus
Dan opens with a startling thought he had leaving a Billy Graham revival. It seems that nearly all of those who ran forward to receive Jesus there would not have understood [...]
Click here to listen to The Sacrifice of the Son of God as delivered by Alex Hall, Apr 27, 2008 in Atlanta Georgia. Commentary by John Obelenus
In the introduction Alex brings up a good point about assumptions and how they guide how we assimilate information into our pre-existing belief structure.
Next he brings a strong counterpoint [...]
Some verses to consider in light of our previous post:
James 1:27 - Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
I Thessalonians 3:11-12 - Now may our God and Father Himself and Jesus our Lord [...]
by Dan Kimball
Clocking in at 55 minutes, I nearly broke my personal record for the longest sermon I’ve ever preached. It was “Hell.”
In our series called “Hot Theology,” the topics were determined from surveys of the congregation. The most common question: “Would a loving God send people to hell?” That’s hard to cover in 35 [...]
Saw this on Christianity Today’s site - interesting concept.
The Hermeneutics Quiz (click on “take assessment)
Here is a summary of what each catagory means:
First, the conservative hermeneutic group scores 52 or lower. The strength of this view is its emphasis on the authority, ongoing and normative authority, of all of Scripture. It tends to operate with the line many [...]
Episode Two. From the mouth of Jesus we learn he has a God. Could Jesus have one he calls “my God” and yet he himself also be God? An overview of the “my God” statements of Jesus with the purpose of learning more about who he really is.
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