Author: rey
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Get The Gehenna Out of Here?
People love talking about the love of Jesus. Man, that Old Testament was brutal—the God there equally so: ordering death of people, constantly warning of impending judgment, horrid stuff. But the Jesus of the New Testament is fundamentally different: loving, warm, drawing all men to himself, eating with sinners and judging no one! Not like…
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Prayer Mondays: An Unanswered Prayer
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. But this one comes from a story Jesus told and it reveals an unanswered prayer by a man in Hell. “And he cried and…
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What the Sheol?
One of the first points folk bring up about Hell is that if it is as horrible as people say it is, and if the way to avoid it is to believe God, then why didn’t God bring it up before the New Testament? Before Matthew or Mark (whichever was first) we don’t get an…
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Quotables: Irenaeus On The Real Heaven and Hell
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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Philosophy Fridays: Hell? Oh!
Folk who know me might remember that the reason I became a believer was, in the first case, a fear of hell. Well, a roundabout fear anyway: I had just seen the Exorcist and hell became a reality to my young brain. Some atheists like to say hell is an abusive scare tactic and that…
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Tweet Blog:Word Coloring
Context is the hue that colors in words. Technorati Tags: context, hermeneutics, interpretation, tweet blog, words
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Walk Worthy of Your Calling: Numbers Sermons
Last year I spent some time preaching through the book of Numbers with an effort at understanding the book as it stands and how we see threads of application under the Gospel. MP3′s after the jump. Walk Worthy The Levite’s Work Set Apart Living Holy Unto The Lord Offerings in Leviticus and Numbers Peace Offerings…
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Prayer Mondays: Lenten Prayer of Ephrem the Syrian
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 is a Lenten prayer from Ephrem the Syrian. O Lord and Master of my life! Take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness,…
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Fontisizing Trajan
So these posts are to display, ogle, applaud, examine and objectify fonts that have crept out of my dreams and onto my designs. Go ahead: fontasize about Trajan.
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Prayer Mondays: Luther on Righteousness
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 is a prayer that may have some Lenten application by Martin Luther (ht: Trevin Wax) Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am…