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One of the original super groups was Buffalo Springfield— Stephen Stills, Neil Young, and Richie Furay amongst others. Check this out.

A statue of Seneca assuming the task of a rhetorician. ———– The following is the text (but not the notes) of my Society of Biblical Literature lecture to be given next Sunday in Boston. STRIVING FOR EPIDEICTIC EXCELLENCE: THE RHETORIC OF HEBREWS Dr. Ben Witherington, III Amos Professor of NT for Doctoral Studies Asbury Theological…

STONE: THE COLD HARD FACTS* A stone Stands alone Unmoved Unmoveable In stele silence. Solid but cold Hard but old Yet not aging Rocks of ages The stuff of idols Edifices Statues Monoliths Cornerstones Keystones Tombstones Petraglyphs From you The Pieta From you Rocky Petrified by Stone Mountain or Mt. Rushmore From you Avalanche From…

The Reviews of my most personal and intimate work are pouring in and here are some of the first ones. For those interested in exploring the work more here is the link– http://wipfandstock.com/store/The_Living_Legacy_The_Soul_in_Paraphrase_The_Heart_in_Pilgrimage ————— “I have known Ben Witherington as a superb scholar, teacher, and proclaimer of God’s Word. This book introduces us to Ben…

Well, I’ve heard it all now. A priest in South Carolina, one Jay Scott Newman (no relation, I suppose, to John Henry Newman) has decided that parishioners who voted for Barack Obama are not entitled to the grace of Jesus Christ through communion until they’ve done penance. In a pastoral letter to his Greenville S.C.…

Vengeance, revenge, wrath. It is often the human response to being deeply wounded, or having someone you love be deeply wounded or even killed. And while it is perfectly normal as a fallen human response to injustice and wickedness, this in itself does not make it a good or godly response. Can one really get…

Extra brownie points in heaven, if you can name Donovan’s back up band for this classic song from the 60s, especially who is that guitarist???? BW3

O.K. what do you get when you combine the fact that lots of weird things happen in Florida, and lots of weird things happen in church? Well, how about lots of weird things happen in church in Florida, take for example the communion bandit of Jensen Beach Florida. Here is the story line link so…

I have asked one of my doctoral students, Brad Johnson to give a good concise review of a new title provided by Zondervan on the issue of some of the aspects of how verbs work in Greek, and how they differ from the way verbs work in English. The review, offered below, speaks for itself.…
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