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This series, too, emerges from a chapter I wrote that didn’t “fit” into the book, so I’m posting it this week… while we are in Ireland. The best book I’ve seen that looks at Jesus through the lens of benefactor is F.W. Danker, Jesus and the New Age: A Commentary on St. Luke’s Gospel .…

Our James commentary is already posted at Amazon. Thanks Eerdmans for getting it up so early. The Letter of James (NICNT) (New International Commentary on the New Testament)

John Mark Hicks, Come to the Table: Revisioning the Lord’s Supper , explores themes of the Eucharist in such a fresh manner. The Table of the Lord is a Table of hope and a Table of Joy. There is a proper sacred context for the Table, but sacred too easily morphs into the morbid. That is, for…

O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

The picture to the right we use for our Saturday Afternoon Book Review is from the Long Room at Trinity College in Dublin. We were just in the Long Room, which is above the Book of Kells, this morning! Blog Book Review: ReChurch: Healing Your Way Back to the People of God by Stephen Mansfield…

From CNN.com… we are saddened to hear that Coach John Wooden, the greatest NCAA basketball coach ever, has died.  (CNN) — He was known as the Wizard of Westwood, the architect of a dynasty at UCLA that will never be equaled. But John Wooden leaves behind a legacy much larger than victories on a basketball court.…

If everyone is welcome, no one should be an impostor and no one should suffer with Impostor Syndrome in the community of Jesus. His dream kingdom brought to the teeming surface the vision that everyone was worthy and therefore everyone was welcome and everyone would be treated with love. When his critics shot barbs at…

We’re out of the country, and since that means I won’t have time for Meanderings, they are on hold for a couple of weeks. But I’ll have a post up to discuss … And maybe folks could just drop links in the Comments box of their favorites for the week and we could have some…

Football is better because of replay, and so is basketball better. But baseball, the national pastime? Yes, watching replay monitors to see if a ball was a home run or a fair ball … that seems fine. But once we open up replays to see if a runner was “safe” at 1B … it would…

The Baylor Survey of Religion study (What Americans Really Believe ) examined the correlation between one’s view of God and one’s commitment to religious practices. It measured American religious commitment by prayer, church attendance, religious experience, Bible reading, identification as a religious person and witnessing to strangers. It asked questions, to begin with, to discover…
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