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While Exegesis deals with the task of understanding what a text meant in its original context, hermeneutics deals with what those texts mean to us today. However, it is important…
While Exegesis deals with the task of understanding what a text meant in its original context, hermeneutics deals with what those texts mean to us today. However, it is important…
This past week my family and I were in New York City for the wedding of one of my sisters. I was raised in the NYC neighborhood of Astoria and…
A man may have enough of the world to sink him, but he can never have enough to satisfy him. Thomas Brooks, The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks Volume One,…
Chapter Ten & Epilogue Darlene’s suffering was not over when she was liberated from her prison camp. Recovery would take years. We often find it easier to remember to…
Treating People Like Projects “It is not disingenuous to have evangelistic intentions undergirding our love and care for unbelieving people. In fact, I don’t know if a Christian can genuinely…
It is an awful truth, and worthy of all consideration, that knowledge not acted upon, in God’s sight, is not merely useless and unprofitable. It is much worse than that.…
Coming from the Greek word exēgeomai, which means to lead or draw out, exegesis is the art and science of drawing out the original intended meaning of a text. We…
Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even “humble” attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom…
Chapter Nine Of all the trials Darlene went through, the loss of her dear husband was the hardest. Yet even in this tragedy, God was at work. Not only…