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I must first confess that the Chronicles of Narnia were stories I read to my children at bedtime. I am predisposed to like or try to like these movies. The novellete Prince Caspian was not the strongest in the series by any means but it was servicable to advance the story line. In fact ?f…

He still looks good at 65 and he can still crack the whip like an old schoolmaster but has this series been jolted back to life or fallen over three waterfalls into a watery grave? Inquiring minds want to know and while the box office ?s grand the reviews are decidedly mixed as a brief…

There is ever so much to blog about from the world tour thus far and I w?ll be do?ng some posts on Sidney and Jakarta and Prince Caspian and Indiana Jones both of wh?ch I saw ?n the last two weeks but here are a few thoughts on my t?me ?n Singapore. Firstly there was…

Jesus told us that the Kingdom belongs to children, and here’s one who may be able to find it on the map. Kudos to Marc Axelrod for this link—- watch this, (BW3)— http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r43yCiKlbCo

The following was sent to me by my dear old Mom. The claim is this came from actual Sunday school classes, but I’m suspicious since it involves the mythical little Johnny.———– DID NOAH FISH? A Sunday school teacher asked, “Johnny, do you think Noah did a lot offishing when he was on the Ark ?“No,”…

Sometime ago I wrote a poem which began– ‘ashes to ashes, dust to dust, the men of iron, have turned to rust.’—- I must confess that Iron Man was not my favorite of the many Marvel Comics of my youth. I enjoyed reading it once in a while, but Iron Man (no, not the one…

When I was growing up I used to love to read both Marvel Comics and Mad Magazine. They were a source of no little enjoyment and fun. I remember a particular edition of Mad Magazine where they parodied the Odyssey and the Iliad. Alfred E. Newman went through a journey called ‘The Oddity and the…

Tom McCall, a TEDS graduate has recently given an interesting talk about the resurgence of Calvinism amongst the young, including young scholars.What is especially interesting about it, is he gives it from an Arminian or Methodist perspective, and it is an appreciation of a good deal that is a part of this phenomenon. Here is…

Please find here a link to a lecture I have given at Asbury on how to choose a proper Bible translation for you. You will find similar guidance in a chapter in my book The Living Word of God. This also gives you a glimpse of why you ought to come and study with us…

One of the more interesting sayings of Jesus with equally interesting theological implications is found in Mt. 18.18–” I tell you whatever you (i.e. Peter and the gang) bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” The Greek here is straight forward, and the…
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