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Painting Fakes: Resurrection 2: Meaning
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I submit that the ultimate religious question today should no longer be the sixteenth-century Reformation's query, 'How can I find a gracious God? But rather, 'How can we find God in our enemies? Sunday, 26 July 2015. The important thing about Jesus' miracles is not their factuality but their meaning. Jesus' miracles illustrate and reinforce his teaching about the Kingdom of God. The same goes for the resurrection. Having summarised what I think the resurrection stories are describing. A number of the se...
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Painting Fakes: August 2015
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I submit that the ultimate religious question today should no longer be the sixteenth-century Reformation's query, 'How can I find a gracious God? But rather, 'How can we find God in our enemies? Friday, 21 August 2015. If you read this blog from time to time you'll know that I'm a big fan of Bruce Cockburn. So you won't be surprised to hear that I was very excited about the publication of his memoir, Rumours of Glory,. Which hit the shelves in late 2014. I read Rumours of Glory. In the Falling Dark.
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Painting Fakes: Resurrection 1: Evidence
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I submit that the ultimate religious question today should no longer be the sixteenth-century Reformation's query, 'How can I find a gracious God? But rather, 'How can we find God in our enemies? Sunday, 26 July 2015. A while ago I wrote a series of posts. Not sure, I don't dismiss them but I hold their factuality relatively lightly. Will look at what it meant for the early Christians. Said it, or when Frank Morrison or Josh McDowell laid out the proofs one by one. Conservative Christians are still at it...
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Painting Fakes: Redemption Songs/Songs of Freedom
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I submit that the ultimate religious question today should no longer be the sixteenth-century Reformation's query, 'How can I find a gracious God? But rather, 'How can we find God in our enemies? Saturday, 8 August 2015. Redemption Songs/Songs of Freedom. How can we get past heavily theological, formulaic music and find something that creates a genuine emotional connection? How can we get out of the atonement bubble and sing about everything that matters in our lives? And others like it. But only because...
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Painting Fakes: More Lives of Jesus 10: Paul Barnett
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I submit that the ultimate religious question today should no longer be the sixteenth-century Reformation's query, 'How can I find a gracious God? But rather, 'How can we find God in our enemies? Friday, 17 July 2015. More Lives of Jesus 10: Paul Barnett. Yet out of this evidence, or out of the silences between the evidence, authors have produced a huge variety of pictures of Jesus - divine being. Wrote, "there is no historical task which so reveals a man's true self as the writing of a Life of Jesus".
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Painting Fakes: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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I submit that the ultimate religious question today should no longer be the sixteenth-century Reformation's query, 'How can I find a gracious God? But rather, 'How can we find God in our enemies? Friday, 31 July 2015. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I'm late to the party as usual but I've just finished reading Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,. Originally published in 2005, thanks to a tip-off from my clever niece Alisha . How can we see this event in perspective? Since thi...
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Painting Fakes: Farewell Michael Clarke
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I submit that the ultimate religious question today should no longer be the sixteenth-century Reformation's query, 'How can I find a gracious God? But rather, 'How can we find God in our enemies? Tuesday, 11 August 2015. So, Michael Clarke has announced his retirement from international cricket, to take place at the end of the Ashes series. Before and after he was not quite so great. With one test to go in his career he has a touch over 8,000 runs at an average of just under 50, which is good but not...
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Painting Fakes: Let Love Speak Up Itself
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I submit that the ultimate religious question today should no longer be the sixteenth-century Reformation's query, 'How can I find a gracious God? But rather, 'How can we find God in our enemies? Friday, 10 July 2015. Let Love Speak Up Itself. Ok, so I've been participating in the debate about same sex marriage, in a desultory sort of way. I'm for it. I don't feel that strongly about it, but if people really want it I can't see why they should be refused. Like a lot of Indian marriages, this one had been...
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Painting Fakes: April 2015
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I submit that the ultimate religious question today should no longer be the sixteenth-century Reformation's query, 'How can I find a gracious God? But rather, 'How can we find God in our enemies? Friday, 24 April 2015. And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda. One of the endearing things about Australia is that we are just as bad at national days as we are at national songs. Sadly we seem to be able to work up a bit more nationalistic excitement. Still, it's kind of jarring that a nationalistic celebration o...
