#ReimagineSCRIPTURE…Extract the meaning; don’t insert

#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

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A Lovable Term but Misunderstood

#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

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8 Words to #ReimagineSCRIPTURE...

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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Did God Create Women as Less Than Men?

Meanderings

SCOT MCKNIGHT

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

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#ReimagineSCRIPTURE...Romans 3:23

Just added a brief icommentary tomy nterview with the author of "We The Fallen People" who said

"It's entirely conceivable that neither democracy nor Christianity will flourish in the United States in the future as they have in the past...

It se

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Warning: How Our Cultural Perspectives Can Color How We Understand and Apply Scripture

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The Bathsheba Question

It’s not often I see biblical topics trending on Twitter, so when I saw “Bathsheba” trending

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Last week NASA published an article entitled "NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet". One can read this article and see the picture it is about here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-i

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Reading Your Bible Relationally By Lance Witt on Jun 18, 2022 Replenish Ministries

#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

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GUEST POST - Rethinking the Samaritan Woman by Scot McNight

GUEST POST - Rethinking the Samaritan Woman, by Scot McNight
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Our thanks to Scot McKnight

May 18

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

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The Penitential Psalms, Advent, and Lent

Repentance is essential to life with God. It was essential to the ministries of the prophets, up to and including John the Baptist and the Lord Jesus Christ. During His earthly ministry, the Lord both preached it and taught it. Two examples:

Now

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#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

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Seeing Ever More of Christ Evermore

While searching in Google Books for a certain remark of the ancient Church Father Gregory of Nyssa, I came across the following words of Hans Boersma on page 77 of his book Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition (William B. Eerdm

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Gregory of Nyssa and Christ

Hans Boersma says the following about the ancient theologian and Church Father Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 – c. 395) on page 77 of his book Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2018):

I will arg

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A triolet related to Hosea 6:1–3

by Salvatore Anthony Luiso

Return, and follow on to know the LORD:

And He shall come unto us as the rain.

Come, bow before Him who should be adored:

Return, and follow on to know the LORD.

Come, seek His face; come, be re

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#ReimagineSCRIPTURE... Text + Context + Pretext!

#ReimagineSCRIPTURE... Text + Context + Pretext!

Phil Miglioratti

http://Reimagine.Network

Note:

In order to reimagine disciple-making, evangelism, prayer, justice, Church,

we are driven back to and into Holy Scripture.

In order to reimagine dis

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An Israelite of the 8th Century B.C. Reacts to the Prophet Hosea

An Israelite of the 8th Century B.C. reacts to the prophet Hosea:

You know what I can't stand about Hosea? It's not just that he criticizes us--although that's bad enough. It's that he doesn't criticize the nations around us. It should be t

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#ReimagineSCRIPTURE: Beware Modern Scribes and Pharisees. (And Sadducees, too.)

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

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#Reimagine Matthew 5:8 and the Human Heart

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

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GRACE RE-IMAGINED

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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#ReimagineSCRIPTURE...in our conversation

JESUS:

What if We SEE Him the Way We SAY Him?

by Salvatore Anthony Luiso

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Words clearly matter when it comes to how we speak to others about Jesus. It shapes how they respond to him. But it also matters for you because the ways you

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#ReimagineSCRIPTURE (40)

#ReimagineSCRIPTURE…Extract the meaning; don’t insert

#ReimagineKINGDOM…

A Lovable Term but Misunderstood

8 Words to #ReimagineSCRIPTURE...

Did God Create Women as Less Than Men?

#ReimagineSCRIPTURE...Romans 3:23

Warning: How Our Cultural Perspectives Can Color How We Understand and Apply Scripture

The Bathsheba Question

Christ and the Cosmos

Reading Your Bible Relationally By Lance Witt on Jun 18, 2022 Replenish Ministries

GUEST POST - Rethinking the Samaritan Woman by Scot McNight

The Penitential Psalms, Advent, and Lent

#ReimagineSCRIPTURE...not as a how-to-book...

Seeing Ever More of Christ Evermore

Gregory of Nyssa and Christ

A triolet related to Hosea 6:1–3

#ReimagineSCRIPTURE... Text + Context + Pretext!

An Israelite of the 8th Century B.C. Reacts to the Prophet Hosea

#ReimagineSCRIPTURE: Beware Modern Scribes and Pharisees. (And Sadducees, too.)

#Reimagine Matthew 5:8 and the Human Heart

GRACE RE-IMAGINED

#ReimagineSCRIPTURE...in our conversation

JESUS:

What if We SEE Him the Way We SAY Him?

by Salvatore Anthony Luiso

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