Doing Evangelism together (2)

Why should we do evangelism relationally? Acts suggests several reasons: • to have fellowship (Acts 9:19, 26-28); • to have companionship (18:18; 19:29; 20:34; 27:1-2; 28:15); • to have protection (9:30; 17:15; 20:2-4); • to have encouragement (28:15); • to form an official delegation to attend the Jerusalem Council (15:2) and • to deliver famine [...]

Doing evangelism together

In our culture, the activity of evangelism is often atomized, and individualized. This fits in well with the prevailing worldview of Western Europeanized societies. The concept of celebrity feeds the illusion of individual triumph in areas of beauty, wealth and talent –Do you have the X factor? No one wants to face the fact of [...]

What is a prophet?

What is a Prophet? Many people today think of a prophet as any person who sees the future. While the gift of prophecy certainly includes the ability to see the future, a prophet is far more than just a person with that ability. A prophet is basically a spokesman for God, a person chosen by [...]

Introduction to Prophets 2: TV show

New Show About the Old Testament Prophets to Debut on CatholicTV in September 8/14/2009 – 11:53 AM PST Starting in September, CatholicTV will air a new show entitled “The Prophets and You”. This new show is hosted by Dr. John Clabeaux. Dr. Clabeaux earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University and is an associate professor of [...]

Introduction to the Prophets

Excellent bibliography on Prophets at http://courses.missouristate.edu/victormatthews/bib/PROPHET.html

Studying the New Testament

 From time to time there are specific queries from students about useful books to purchase to build up a good, rounded NT library. Here’s a selective nt-booklist.docwhich could have been much amplified. Enjoy. The asterisks mark those of particular importance.

Using the Internet at Bible College

A recent photo of dr-baker-in-his-study.jpg reminded me of the usefulness of internet research. Here’s a few pointers. Important websites (“meta-sites”) See the relevant links for Biblical Studies on the useful links pages. A particularly useful site for New Testament work is the New Testament Gateway. For Old Testament / Hebrew Bible, the iTankakh site, Ralph [...]

Hermeneutics: Introduction to the Module

Welcome to the Hermeneutics class. Here the overall plan, subject to approval  maf-hermeneutics.doc. Check out the textbook ASAP. Some initial discussion points are contained in hermeneutics-1.doc   and  hermeneutics-2.doc   with some more recent  issues-in-hermeneutics.doc and a few miscellaeneous articles-on-hermeneutics.doc too. Get reading! First homework is to set up your own blog and post a Hermeneutics book list of your own discovery plus the [...]

The Missiology of the Pharisees

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel about on sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves,” Matthew 23:15. An article by Terry Seufferlein http://www.ovc.edu/missions/jam/pharisee.htm   Jesus’ denunciation of the Pharisees comes in the middle of an [...]

Abraham in Romans 4: The Father of All Who Believe

by Michael CranfordThis article was originally published in New Testament Studies 41 (1995): 71-88. In Romans 4 Paul turns to the scriptural figure of Abraham, a vivid personification of faith and obedience in Jewish thought. While the most obvious reason for Paul’s depiction of Abraham is to undermine any use of Abraham as a counterexample [...]