#ReimagineSCRIPTURE…Extract the meaning; don’t insert
From Ben Witherington
The New Testament is full of theologizing which needs to be interpreted, and it does not require a later ‘theological or canonical reading’ of the text to make it theolog
The New Testament is full of theologizing which needs to be interpreted, and it does not require a later ‘theological or canonical reading’ of the text to make it theolog
#ReimagineKINGDOM…
SCOT MCKNIGHT
In his well-known Southern twang and humor, Jeff Foxworthy often turns crowds into raucous laughter when he offers his ideas on how to detect Southern hicks with his opening line, “You
Read more…8 Words to #ReimagineSCRIPTURE...
Scot McKnight
I have been teaching Bible for forty years. I love to read the Bible, study the Bible, teach the Bible, and write about the Bible.
My favorite chapter in the Bible, at least when it comes to what the Bi
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Beth Barr has an important essay this week:
For more than five decades, evangelical theology has been teaching an increasingly restrictive gender hierarchy, arguing that God ordained male headship and female submissio
Read more…Warning: How Our Cultural Perspectives Can Color How We Understand and Apply Scripture
The Bathsheba Question |
It’s not often I see biblical topics trending on Twitter, so when I saw “Bathsheba” trending |
#ReimagineSCRIPTURE...relationally not informationally
The Word of God is alive and powerful because God is at work in it and through it. He energizes His Word and applies it to my life.
So, before I start reading Scripture, I usually start with a
Read more…GUEST POST - Rethinking the Samaritan Woman, by Scot McNight
This is from my forthcoming Everyday Bible Study volume on the Gospel of John. (Link to the one on Acts.) I am indebted to Lynn
#ReimagineSCRIPTURE...not as a how-to-book...
Becoming the Revelation of Jesus
"For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I rece
Read more…Beware Modern Scribes and Pharisees. (And Sadducees, too.)
Phil Miglioratti • The ReimagineFORUM
I remember in my teens my Pastor's sermons warning us (rightly so) to "Beware of the Scribes and the Pharisees." He taught this passionately becaus
Read more…From a Facebook post by Brent Cloyd -
Most people would tell us they want to go to heaven. This does not necessarily mean they want to see God. In fact, the idea of meeting God face to face might be fearful. The desire to go to heaven does not necess
Read more…I have heard Grace preached in a sermon as:
God's
Riches
At
Christ's
Expense
Below is another way that Grace could be re-imagined.
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