I rarely read Pyromaniacs, but stumbled across this post by Dan Phillips. Worth reading.

HT: Challies.

Sam Storms has had this book out since 2005 and, being a Charismatic Calvinist, I succumbed to a moment of weakness and bought it. Continue Reading »

1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

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1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. 2 And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. 3 And he told them many things in parables, saying:

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I look out for indigenous Bible commentaries, scholarship etc.  I appreciate American and British authorship, but while there is a lot of similarity between Western nations, there is quite a bit of difference also.

So, when I came across the Reading the Bible Today Series, an as-yet-incomplete accessible Australian commentary series, I was quite excited. Continue Reading »

A guy at work showed me some exorcisms he was looking at on YouTube. Most of them were Christian of some sort (Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant) but there was also at least a couple of Islamic exorcisms.  It was interesting to watch - very similar to Christian exorcisms I’ve seen.

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17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root [3] of the olive tree, 18 do not be arrogant toward the branches. Continue Reading »