It seems democratic Presidential hopeful Barak Obama may have put his foot in his mouth again with regard to people of faith. According to an article at Baptist Press he miserably failed to properly interpret the Old Testament law and the Sermon on the Mount.
At issue is a 1996 speech in which Obama said that [...]
Monthly Archive for June, 2008
Is Book and Mortar Seminary an Outdated Mode of Theological Education?
Posted in Musings on Jun 13th, 2008
As a seminary student I spent about a third of my time away from my family on the road. While in Louisville at Southern Seminary, I traveled from Falmouth, KY to Louisville one day a week for my first four semesters and three days a week my last semester there. After we moved to North [...]
Sometimes God Gives You Exactly What You Want
Posted in Entertainment, Musings on Jun 13th, 2008
Case in point …
Bluegrass Loving Baby
Posted in Entertainment on Jun 13th, 2008
From the too cute to not post file, here is a baby who loves mama’s banjo playing! Give it a little time because at the 12 seconds to go spot it really gets funny.
What is Casting Lots
Posted in Bible Study on Jun 13th, 2008
Some people wonder what is casting lots. It was kind of like our shooting craps. And the Roman Soldiers did it for Jesus expensive tunic. What did they use? It is possible that they used something like this.
It is called a Roman D20 and this one is up for sale at $18,000 at the [...]
e-Sword Live
Posted in Bible Software, Bible Study on Jun 11th, 2008
If you’ve read my column in Christian Computing Magazine, then you know I like e-Sword as the best free Bible Study software available. The creator is a fine man for giving this away to people more than 5 million people. Now you can go to e-Sword Live and use much of the free resources online. [...]
Be Careful, Sin is a Trap
Posted in Preaching on Jun 10th, 2008
I love this and it is a great illustration of how sin is a trap. This boy intended to do harm to this wall, but the wall fought back.
Michael All Dressed Up 2
Posted in Family, Photography on Jun 5th, 2008
Michael All Dressed Up 2, originally uploaded by kerussojc.
This is my oldest, Michael. He had his final full day in 8th grade and some of the guys dressed up for their awards breakfast and dance. There is another photo on my Flickr Site. Click the picture to take you there.
Unimaginable Grief
Posted in News & Such, Photography on Jun 5th, 2008
A church member sent this photo to me. Read the title and that is all I can say.
The woman in the photo is the wife of the man in the coffin. She wanted to sleep one last time next to his body before his burial. The man standing guard is there at the request of [...]
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The Digital Pulpit- Visual Outline of the TextHere is where the real fun starts in preparing a message. Up to this point all we’ve really done is decide what passage to rely on for our message. Now we begin the actual study process by creating a visual outline of the text. Our preliminary work gave us a good start. By this point we [...]
- What Will Be the Last Verse In Our Text?Last time we discussed the reason for starting our passage at verse one of chapter 12. Now let’s look at the ending of the passage. How far will we go? Obviously, we will not be going through the end of the book or even the end of the chapter. We could, but there is just [...]
- Update on Delineating the PassageOne of the blogs I read regularly is the Biblical Preaching blog. In their March 3rd post they discuss this concept a little. The posts asks, “Who put them there?” It talks about how the chapter and vers divisions can get in the way sometimes of good text selection or as I call it Delineating [...]
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