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This Saturday through Monday I’ll be attending the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Conference held right here in San Francisco! Here’s my list of sessions that I’ll probably be attending. If you happen to be there, let me know, it’d be great to run into you and catch up. S19-116 SBL Ecological Hermeneutics Section I got floored with a new insight in preparing for a sermon on 2 Corinthians 5:11-17 last Sunday. In verse 17, the translations I’ve always read said something like this: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.” (see the 1984 NIV, ESV, NASB, HCSB, and others). However, when doing some study on this . . . → Read More: Translating 2 Cor 5:17 – “he is a new creation” or “there is a new creation”? I started this week with a post talking about why More Megapixels Aren’t Always Better (is that title even grammatically correct?) for two primary reasons: I have a problem with consumerism marketing which pushes new products on people even if the new product won’t actually provide a noticeable improvement. Right now I’m reading through Douglas Moo’s article ”Nature in the New Creation: New Testament Eschatology and the Environment,” and I ran across this summary of what he calls his “brief and admittedly simplistic” rendition of the “larger biblical story line”: The first humans, created in God’s image, failed to obey the Lord their God and brought ruin . . . → Read More: The Biblical Story Line in One Paragraph Part One: Why I Chose This Book In this particular season of my life—raising two kids with my wife, working downtown, being a part of a church community, farming in the backyard, networking with other churches, and everything in between—I’ve felt called to live out and pursue this idea of “sustainable spirituality.” Essentially, how in the world . . . → Read More: Book Review: Hearing God’s Words (Part One) |
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