December 2011
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Advent Thoughts: On Prayer
Prayer is the ultimate act of subversion~ it shows that we place our trust not in the evil structures that jockey for power and control, but in a helpless babe and a crucified man. Prayer subverts the kingdoms of this world by putting weakness on display. It screams that our hope is not in what we can see, but in what we have seen and what we will see. Moses told YHWH in Exodus that he would...
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Book Review: The African Memory of Mark
THE AFRICAN MEMORY OF MARK: REASSESSING EARLY CHURCH TRADITION. By Thomas C. Oden. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2011. Pp. 7-278. $22.00
At the end of Tom Oden’s sterling book The African Memory of Mark, he states that “Africans have a right to retrieve what modern historicism has take captive (256).” Weaving together sources both modern and ancient, Oden takes the reader...
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Album Review: "We Bought A Zoo" music by Jónsi
Having followed Jónsi Birgisson and the band Sigur Rós since 2003, I eagerly anticipate every bit of music he or the band puts out. I think this is why I was so excited to learn that Jonsi had scored the upcoming movie directed by Cameron Crowe called We Bought a Zoo. Sigur Rós and Jónsi have always created music that is both technically beautiful and creatively inspiring. This soundtrack...
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Segment Survey of Romans 1:18-2:29
Segmant Survey
Romans 1:18-2:29
General and specific materials of the book:
1:18-32~ Gentiles found guilty. 1:18-25~ The Gentiles knew God, but did not worship Him as God.
1:26-32~ The Gentiles have been handed over to sin.
2:1-11~ Readers found guilty. 2:1-4~ You who judge are just as guilty.
2:5-11~ Your deeds condemn you.
2:12-16~ All our found guilty. 2:12-13~ The doers of the law...
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Advent: If your God is so great, why doesn't he...
As I ponder the greatest event in human history and antipate the culmination of that historic event, i cant help but think about how through the Advent of Christ, He really does “speak our language!” Through the Incarnation, Christ became human, He became one of us. As we ponder that and the 2nd coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, let us remember that we are not only called to...