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What Must Be Preserved of the Churches of Christ? (Unity, Part 1)

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Jay F Guin

I attended David Lipscomb College (now Lipscomb University) and managed to take a Bible class every day for the entire time and learn nothing about the Restoration Movement. That class was reserved for Bible majors and offered opposite key major … Continue reading →

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N. T. Wright’s “The Case for the Psalms” Chapter 3

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Jay F Guin

We are considering and riffing a bit on N. T. Wright’s The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential. In chapter 3, Wright explains how the psalms “invite us, first, to stand at the intersection of the different layers … Continue reading →

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Noah

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Jay F Guin

John Mark Hicks has just posted a two-part series on Noah — both the biblical account and the movie. Highly recommended. Noah the Movie: Part I Noah the Movie, Part II

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What Must Be Preserved of the Churches of Christ? (The Spirit, Part 2)

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Jay F Guin

I’m not going to attempt a complete theology of the Spirit (pneumatology, technically), nor will I endeavor to suss out just what the Spirit does and doesn’t do today. I just want to offer the barest of introductions to a … Continue reading →

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The Humility Bubble Lesson

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Jay F Guin

This is one of the earliest posts on the blog — so early that I posted it as a .pdf because I didn’t know how to post HTML text. It responds to some of the comments recently made, and so … Continue reading →

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What Must Be Preserved of the Churches of Christ? (The Spirit, Part 1)

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Jay F Guin

It’s easy to criticize some of the errors of the more conservative Churches of Christ. And the very natural, very human tendency is to lump all Church of Christ teachings together and reject them all. And so, I think it’s … Continue reading →

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N. T. Wright’s “The Case for the Psalms” Chapters 1 & 2, Part C

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Jay F Guin

We are considering and riffing a bit on N. T. Wright’s The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential. The Psalms and Jesus Wright points out that the Psalms formed the core of the early church’s scriptural proof for Jesus as … Continue reading →

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N. T. Wright’s “The Case for the Psalms” Chapters 1 & 2, Part B

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Jay F Guin

We are considering and expanding a tad on N. T. Wright’s The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential. I think it’d be helpful to also reflect back on an earlier book by Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense — … Continue reading →

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N. T. Wright’s “The Case for the Psalms” Chapters 1 & 2, Part A

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Jay F Guin

At about the same time Wright released his massive Paul and the Faithfulness of God, he released a much smaller, much more accessible book, The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential. The Churches of Christ, priding themselves on … Continue reading →

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Muscle & Shovel”: An Open Letter

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Jay F Guin

[Because this is an unusually long post, I’m skipping tomorrow to allow more time for discussion.] We are considering Michael Shank’s book Muscle and a Shovel. (And I guess I did change my mind. What can I say? But this … Continue reading →

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