JeremyGoodwyne

This video is pretty amazing. Satirist Stephen Colbert had sensationalist theologian Bart Erhman on his show to promote his book Jesus, Interrupted, and to discuss the (not exactly original) idea that the Bible is a big self-contradiction, and the Jesus we talk about doesn’t even resemble who he claimed to be (questioning such factors as [...]

If the heart does not overflow and begin to pray by itself, we say, it will never ‘learn’ to pray. But it is a  dangerous error, and surely widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself. For then we confuse wishes, hopes, sighs, laments, rejoicings–all of which the heart can do [...]

At some point in my developmental years, I was convinced that to do anything with rellentless regularity was to strip it of worth. If I were to spend the same amount of time in scripture at the same time every day, then it wouldn’t be truly valuable. I would be legalistic, working my way across [...]

As a seminary project this summer I did an exegesis of 2 Samuel 6:12-23. This is the passage in which King David brings the ark of God into Jerusalem from the house of Obed-edom, the Gittite, and dances in the streets. Michal, his wife sees him dancing wearing only an linen ephod, which is a [...]