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Walking in Newness of Life…
It’s so difficult not to feel nostalgic as a new football season dawns. Seeing the Ducks take the field for the first time each year has always been a reminder that a new school year is about to start....
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Perfection in Secrecy…
A few weeks ago, my church (Calvary Fellowship) began a seminar series from True North Star Ministries. This series has mostly been about child abuse (verbal, physical, sexual, etc.) and I must say the...
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Canons Revisited…
Over the next few weeks and months, I’ll be studying the canonicity of the Bible. Several nights ago I started reading the book of Wisdom, which is an Apocryphal text, and have been wondering why it...
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To Whom Shall We Go?
Do you go to church? Over the past several months this question has come my way again and again. And since I didn’t really have a home church for a good nine months, my response usually was, “Off and...
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How Many Chances Will It Take?
On a couple occasions within the last month or so, I’ve met up with one of the high school students I used to lead at Calvary Fellowship. It was actually quite random how it all started, really. He...
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Prosperity Through Pain…
“We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been...
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Brewing My Own Theology…
An information packet from Western Seminary came in the mail yesterday. Yes, that same seminary I said I was going to apply to almost two years ago is again heavily on my mind. Only this time I’m...
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No Strings Attached…
“The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds,” – Matthew 11:19 A few days...
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Getting Into Character…
Today was a different day at Emmaus Life. Scott & Charissa kidnapped all the married couples for some sort of secret club meeting for married people (probably to discuss how to take over the...
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“When the Helper comes…”
I know Good Friday (along with Easter) has come and gone, but my mind has been milling over something I picked up from watching Passion of the Christ. Scott, our pastor from Emmaus Life, encouraged us...
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Sundays With St. Paul: An Introduction to Paul and the Law…
One of the classes I’m taking this semester is titled “Paul and the Law” and deals with precisely those two things: Paul and the Torah (“law,” “teaching,” or “instruction” in Hebrew). After only two...
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Sundays With St. Paul: Nuances of “Law”…
For our discussion groups this week, we were asked to interact with the 16th chapter of Westerholm’s Perspectives Old and New on Paul.[1] In this chapter, Westerholm discusses five key aspects of...
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Sundays With St. Paul: “Uphold the Law” in Romans 3:31…
This is part of a series I’m writing for Near Emmaus. Feel free to read it there or read other posts by other bloggers. For our discussion this week we were instructed to look at Romans 3:31 and...
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On Being a Seminarian: How Far is Too Far?…
This is part of a weekend series I’m writing for Near Emmaus. Be sure to check out other posts by other bloggers, especially if you’re interested in biblical studies. Since I began seminary last fall,...
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Sundays With St. Paul: Do We Still Need Torah?
With my spring semester at George Fox having finished this past week and my “Paul and the Law” class with it, I’ve been thinking a lot about Torah and how much it matters to us in modern day...
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Getting Into Character…
Today was a different day at Emmaus Life. Scott & Charissa kidnapped all the married couples for some sort of secret club meeting for married people (probably to discuss how to take over the...
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“When the Helper comes…”
I know Good Friday (along with Easter) has come and gone, but my mind has been milling over something I picked up from watching Passion of the Christ. Scott, our pastor from Emmaus Life, encouraged us...
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