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Blogmatics: The Existence Of God

This is the first part of a new series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.   Why? Is there any question more fundamental to the human...

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In All Things Necessary To Our Salvation

(picture found here) This is a follow up to a post I wrote recently about biblical inerrancy. It’s a clarification of sorts, or at least an elaboration on what I do and do not believe about the Bible and why. I am an ordained elder in and lifetime member of the Church...

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The Bible Isn’t Perfect And It Says So Itself

If you blog long enough, someone will eventually call you a heretic. Self-appointed orthodoxy watchdogs plague the internet almost as much as porn. Say something outside their particular theological tradition and they’ll damn your soul to an eternity in hell as fast...

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Blogmatics: The Ordination Of Women

This is the eleventh part of a series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts. This particular post is adapted from a post that originally appeared...

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Blogmatics: Hell

This is the thirteenth part of a series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts. This post is adopted for two previous posts I have written on hell...

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Blogmatics: The Cost Of Discipleship

This is the twelfth part of a series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts. As is true for so many others, Dietrich Bonhoeffer has had a profound...

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Blogmatics: Resurrection

This is the tenth part of a series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.   There are many days when I find myself teetering on the brink of,...

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Blogmatics: Salvation

This is the ninth part of a series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.   A couple of weeks ago in my post on what I believe God can and...

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Blogmatics: The Church

This is the seventh part of a new series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.   What is the church? Is it a building? Is it the people? Is...

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Blogmatics: Sin

This is the eighth part of a series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.   There are a lot of things we don’t like to talk about in the...

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Blogmatics: The Holy Spirit

This is the sixth part of a new series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.    I intended these posts to be short, but this one is a little...

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Blogmatics: The Sovereignty Of God

This is the third part of a new series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.   Somewhere in the world today a senseless tragedy will occur....

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Blogmatics: What God Can And Cannot Do

This is the fourth part of a new series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.   Can God make a rock so heavy He can’t move it? Can God make a...

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Blogmatics: Jesus

This is the fifth part of a new series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.   Who do you say that I am? It’s a question Jesus asked of his...

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Holy Hospitality (A Eulogy For My Grandmother)

NOTE: This is the eulogy I offered at my grandmother’s funeral this week and I share it simply to honor her who I loved so dearly. It’s ok to laugh while reading this. The occasional humor is intentional. This wasn’t for a memorial. It was for a celebration of my...

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