Hermeneutics… Can We Trust Jonah? 22 Feb 201223 Feb 2012 Every year I pick a book of the Bible to study. I had a hard time deciding what book I was going to pour over but I finally landed on…
Discipleship Suffering Servants: Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark 21 Feb 201222 Feb 2012 If Jesus had called his disciples to sit and sip Highlander Grog all day and read, I would be sanctified holy! But alas that gospel call on the life of…
Books… Healing the Addiction: A Review of “Sexual Detox” by Tim Challies 20 Feb 201221 Feb 2012 "When a person has become addicted to drugs he has to go through a process called detoxification, or detox for short. In detox the person's body is cleansed of the…
Asides… Jonathan Edwards Slave Holder 19 Feb 2012 Jonathan Edwards has been hailed as America's Greatest Theologian. His works, preaching, and role in church history are often celebrated, and yet an ever-increasing subject of contention is Edwards as…
Asides… This Week’s Good Reads 17 Feb 2012 Here were some of the articles that stood out to me this last week as interesting and insightful. Happy reading. 1) "Why Being Sleepy and Drunk Is Great for Creativity"…
Uncategorized Next Week 17 Feb 201220 Feb 2012 You don't want to miss these posts next week at Pastor Dave Online: 1) A review of Sexual Detox by Tim Challies This is now my third time reading this…
Hipsters… A Theology for Hipsters (Part 30): Keeping the Fundamentals (Part 9) 16 Feb 201217 Feb 2012 A few weeks ago I dissected the nature of sinful individualism, the same principles we used in that discussion apply to the subject of “Rebellion.” There is a worldly rebellion and…
Culture… The Context for a Theology of Sex 15 Feb 201216 Feb 2012 The church at Corinth was a mess! They were known to be both getting drunk and having orgies at their worship services, and they were proud because they tolerated incest…
Asides… Hipsters from the Heart (Part 5) 14 Feb 2012 For the anti-Valentine's Day hipsters: "Nobody Loves Me" by Derek Webb "Nobody Likes Me" by The Huntingtons
Biblical Theology… Son of Man and Suffering Servant: King Jesus in the Gospel of Mark 14 Feb 201215 Feb 2012 Titles and labels can be extremely important, especially when they are self-designations. How a person refers to themselves says something important about who they believe they are and what they…