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Author Archives: Jay F Guin
To Change the World: Essay 3, Reflections, Part 1
[This series of posts won’t be a traditional book review. Rather, I’ll summarize parts of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by James Davison Hunter, and then I’ll add my … Continue reading
Conversion to TheoBloggers — Double Posts
I just discovered that the old WordPress-hosted site is still sending out emails and RSS feeds. Therefore, I’m getting comments at both the old and new site. I’ve figured out how to keep the old site from posting new posts … Continue reading
To Change the World: Essay 3, Summary, Part 2
[This series of posts won’t be a traditional book review. Rather, I’ll summarize parts of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by James Davison Hunter, and then I’ll add my … Continue reading
To Change the World: Essay 3, Summary, Part 1
[This series of posts won’t be a traditional book review. Rather, I’ll summarize parts of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by James Davison Hunter, and then I’ll add my … Continue reading
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Conversion to Theobloggers
After several weeks of working on the conversion, we finally pulled the switch and changed to the Theobloggers hosting service. As many have already seen, it was not without its glitches. Theobloggers is hard at work fixing the problems as … Continue reading
Weirdness Realized
A few weeks ago, I posted a note explaining that I’m moving the blog hosting from WordPress to Theobloggers. The post was captioned “Expect Weirdness.” Well, we pulled the switch and the blog is now a Theobloggers blog — and … Continue reading
Jesus Manifesto, a review
I received this book for free in exchange for agreeing to review it. I shouldn’t have made that deal — but it was an honest mistake. You see, I’ve read some of Frank Viola’s books, and he usually writes well-researched, … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Frank Viola, Jesus Manifesto, Leonard Sweet
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Colossians: 1:1 – 1:17
(Col 1:1-5a ESV) Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 2 To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. 3 We always … Continue reading
To Change the World: Essay 2, Reflection
[This series of posts won’t be a traditional book review. Rather, I’ll summarize parts of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by James Davison Hunter, and then I’ll add my … Continue reading
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Tagged All, James Davison Hunter, To Change The World
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Colossians: Introduction
This summer, I’ll be teaching an adult Bible class on Colossians and Ephesians. I’ve decided to start with Colossians, because I’m very familiar with Ephesians and not so familiar with Colossians. In fact, it’s a letter that’s not studied that … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Church of Christ Links, Colossians, Ray Vander Laan
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