Shorter, please

A more expressive, meaningful purpose is attained to when the congregation responds with brief punctuates.

Altitude

A truly high view of scripture takes into account the literary and historical contexts in which the documents were penned.

Occasional

New Covenant document scholar Greg Fay has noted, “Paul’s letters are sometimes called ‘occasional documents’ to highlight the cutting-edge, real-life context of their production.”
For my part, I could meander through a bunch of epistles, stumbling around to finding tidbits as examples of occasionalness. Rather, I think I’ll ask this simple question:
When we “do Bible [...]

Working out your salvation (Philippians 2:12)

We do not figure out, devise, work out, or otherwise effect our own salvation. God offers, and we accept.

Sharing your faith

It’s not that “sharing your faith,” in the contemporary sense of the phrase, is inherently a bad idea.

Marcan vocab (early)

The spelling “Marcan” (referring to the writer of what we know as the second gospel) reminds me, oddly enough, of “Vulcan,” and I’m not even a sci-fi fan. Anyway. . . .
In preparing for the third meeting of our study group, I decided to begin listing and investigating some vocabulary that appears significant to [...]

Reverence in the assembly

The song “The Lord Is In His Holy Temple” was sung relatively often in my early years. Although leaders in my congregation were relatively thoughtful in the use of this song, it was mocked in other circles–as though its only purpose were to guilt people into being quiet.
What of quietude in church assemblies? [...]

The word of us

Chances are it’s “the word of the leader” as much as it’s “the Word of the Lord” that the people hear.

On “doing Bible study”

Bible study should be more than going through the motions or being steered through a contrived program.

Early

It appears spiritually well conceived to attempt to discern the original, idiomatic intent of an expression, a sentence, a paragraph … and then to attempt to usher that intent into modern language’s terminology and syntax.