Author: rey
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Questions To Ask Before (Re)Designing
I hate thinking about a redesign. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind redesigning things. There’s no problem going into a client’s situation and pointing out where they’re falling short or what needs to be addressed to underscore their brand. Similarly, I don’t have a problem getting a design from a buddy asking for advice…
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Prayer Mondays: John Stott
Barring my faulty memory (and if I’m not lazy) I want to post prayers on Monday from all over Church History and then throughout the modern day, and then my own. This one comes from John Stott (HT: Trevin Wax). Good morning heavenly Father, Good morning Lord Jesus, Good morning Holy Spirit. Heavenly Father, I…
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Quotables: Inspiration of the Original Autographs
Every now and then I like posting something incisive that was written in the past because it speaks so well into the present. The sweet thing about this is that these guys, who are often waved away today, have dealt with a lot of the same issues while remaining simultaneously (by the modern mind) ignored.…
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Teaching Children The Gospel and Moral Responsibility
I have several posts about teaching children doctrine (here about the image of God and here about the meaning of the mistreatment of God’s image and here some messages). Each example is used to give the fundamental Biblical and theological point without all the extra stuff that you or I might believe–by that I mean…
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Ah, Gehenna: Rey Didn’t Start The Fire
In my post on Gehenna (part of my Hellish Week) I made a statement that I had read in several places and which needs to be retracted because it is historical dubious. Here is what I said: What they forget to mention is that the site wasn’t merely for garbage; it was a place for…
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85 Day Chronological Reading Plan
A week or so ago, I finished my 84 Day reading plan which was an NASB OT-NT with Proverbs and Psalms every day. On April first I started an 85 day reading plan with my ESV but this time focused on chronology. But there are others out there who might want to read along so…
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A Hellish Week
This will serve as the series home for my posts on Hell. Prayer Monday: An Unanswered Prayer Quotable: Irenaeus On the Real Heaven and Hell Philosophical Responses to the Denial of Hell (Hell? Oh!) An examination of Sheol in the Old Testament (What the Sheol?) An examination of Gehenna, Hades (etc.) in the New Testament…
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What About Hell I Don’t Know
Textually, as I covered in a couple of posts before this, I must affirm a literal hell which consists of judgment, separation from God, punishment, eternality and should be rightfully shunned. I think it is dangerous to say the place doesn’t exist when the volume of Scripture teeters with the weight of the matter. I…
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Hell? Yeah.
I’ve touched on lots of Scripture (in both Testaments) but I needed to bring up some broad theological points. I didn’t want to make this a book, I just wanted to put up a few posts that pointed out that the Scriptures are fraught with the doctrine of hell and Christians should believe it. This…
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Hell? No?
At this point, naysayers are quick to say that I’m building a theology off a metaphor. He was using the term Gehenna—which is the burning the trash heap outside of Jerusalem; he was not using the term Sheol. To which the response is, obviously longer in the last post that Christ added details that had…