Author Archives: Jay F Guin

About Jay F Guin

My name is Jay Guin, and I’m a retired elder. I wrote The Holy Spirit and Revolutionary Grace about 18 years ago. I’ve spoken at the Pepperdine, Lipscomb, ACU, Harding, and Tulsa lectureships and at ElderLink. My wife’s name is Denise, and I have four sons, Chris, Jonathan, Tyler, and Philip. I have two grandchildren. And I practice law.

Logos Bible Software, Part 2

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Jay F Guin

Second search I clicked on the Greek word for “repent” in Word for Word, and I was presented with an interlinear presentation of Acts 2:38, including the English, Greek, Greek lemma (root), English transliterations for both (thanks), the morphology (that is, … Continue reading →

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Conservative Church of Christ Resources, with a Reflection or Two

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Jay F Guin

I try to stay well read on conservative Church of Christ thought. It’s always critical to read both sides of any disagreement, and it’s important to look for trends in conservative Church of Christ thought. Therefore, I recently bought the Gospel … Continue reading →

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Logos Bible Software, Part 1

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Jay F Guin

I’ve been fortunate to receive a review (meaning “free”) copy of the Scholars base package of Logos Bible Software. The price is that I must post at least two articles reviewing the software — which is exactly what I was … Continue reading →

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Acts: 2:38 (“Repent,” Part 4, Conclusion)

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Jay F Guin

Conclusion The teaching in Acts is usually “repent” or “have faith in Jesus” — one or the other — and we tend to hear in “repentance” a call to moral living, whereas in “faith” we hear a call to a … Continue reading →

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The Canon

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Jay F Guin

[Reposted due to being lost in the computer crash.] Charles, The closed canon theory is admittedly hard to prove from the Bible. There are usually two arguments made: 1. Cessationism, that is, miraculous gifts, include the gifts of prophecy, died … Continue reading →

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Churches of Christ in Decline: In Answer to Brent

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Jay F Guin

Brent wrote, In ECF theology, the different aspects of the tradition supported each of the other aspects and together were “One”. The Reformation broke the unity of the tradition. This is not good history, for several reasons. Before the Reformation, … Continue reading →

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Quincy Community Church

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Jay F Guin

The Quincy Community Church is a Boston-area church plant by a group of former Harding students. And usually I’d be talking about their church planting effort. But today, it’s about their blog. There are 50,000,000,000,000,000 blogs on the Internet, give or … Continue reading →

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Acts: 2:38 (“Repent,” Part 3, Acts)

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Jay F Guin

Acts We now turn to the later verses in Acts — (Act 3:13-21 ESV)  13 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered … Continue reading →

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Acts: 2:38 (“Repent,” Part 2, Luke)

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Jay F Guin

Luke Let’s look at how “repent” is used by Luke. We begin with John the Baptist — (Luk 3:3-9 ESV)  3 And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of … Continue reading →

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Great Story About Alabama’s Barrett Jones

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Jay F Guin

Barrett Jones is an offensive lineman for Alabama who just won the Outland Trophy. But there much more to him than that. Read about a young man of character here.

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