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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Christ and the Cosmos

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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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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1Corinthians 6:5-11

#ItSeemsToMe...we evangelicals are quick to pick out from this list homosexual practice while forgetting the list includes greed, cheating, drunkenness, adultery (insert Jesus’ definition), verbal abuse.

“Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not

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Stay True to the Text

Many pastors struggle to realize that their role is not so much to “get a message out of the text” as much as it is to help people “get into the text.”

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The 10 Commandments

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#ReimagineSCRIPTURE...with new technology that links Bible Reading and Study

Since the beginning of time, God spoke. And throughout the course of history, his words have been chiseled, inscribed, painted, typed, printed, and digitized.

With Gutenberg’s invention of the moveable

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Seven Kinds of Prayer to Soak Our Bible Reading (John Piper)

In 1998, John Piper preached a message, “Open My Eyes That I May See,” based on Psalm 119:17-24. In that message he mentions seven kinds of prayer to “soak” our reading of Scripture.

Seve

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#ReimagineSCRIPTURE (55)

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

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

1Corinthians 6:5-11

Stay True to the Text

The 10 Commandments

#ReimagineSCRIPTURE...with new technology that links Bible Reading and Study

Seven Kinds of Prayer to Soak Our Bible Reading (John Piper)

#Reimagine the Bible in Our Culture

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