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A Normal Christian Life—- Part Eight
By
Ben Witherington
One of the more crucial of John Wesley’s early sermons, preached at Oxford at the beginning of the Methodist Revival was entitled ‘the almost and the altogether Christian’. John Wesley was apt to say that you can be as orthodox as the devil, for the devil knows the truth about Jesus and God, but that…
A Musing
By
Ben Witherington
MUSINGS I’m afraid my muse is too musical And has a propensity for rhyme It prefers lyrical to metrical… Until it runs out of time. It’s apt to use a wordplay And a pun is within its scope But don’t ask for iambic pentameter It really cannot cope. Its quite well-versed…
A Normal Christian Life—- Part Seven
By
Ben Witherington
I used to have a colleague at Asbury who said that when he was a teenager he came to the altar in repentance so many times, and was born again so many times, he had stretch marks on his soul! Whatever else you say about the new birth, if it is genuinely the new birth,…
Tron’s Legacy—Perfection is Unknowable
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Ben Witherington
Jeff Bridges stars in two movies this Christmas, and they could not be more different. One is the Coen Brothers remake of John Wayne’s film ‘True Grit’, the other is the long awaited sequel to Tron, a truly groundbreaking film. We will deal with ‘True Grit’ later. One needs to keep in mind this is…
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