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God the Impoverished
“”Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.” Matthew 13:45, 46, NASB. I got this idea from reading Peter Rollins’ little book ‘The Orthodox Heretic’. Once the merchant went and sold all […]
The Theory Students
Once there was a crusty old music teacher who taught the 3rd and 4th semesters of music theory at a famous music college. As he was explaining the details of the neapolitan 6th chord to the class, one of the students, a theory major, sent a text message to one of his friends: “How will […]
Parable of the young son
I decided to write this up as its own parable. Once there was a man who worked at an insurance company as a programmer. He was an expert in statistics and computer science, and ran ever more complex actuarial studies on a massively parallel super-computer. One day, his young son asked him what he did […]
Parable of the two young music students
Once there was a great music teacher who only took a few of the most gifted and promising students. One of his students was a very disciplined young man, hard-working and eager to please. He had not at first wanted to play, but he realized it was something that pleased his mother, and because he […]
Thoughts to my mystified friends
This is a note to the mystified reader who wonders how an otherwise intelligent guy ended up not only as a Christian, but as a person seemingly obsessed with some kind of controversy about some fine point of faith that seems frankly irrelevant. I am not out to convert you. I might be out to […]
Justification Equation
I was listening to an excellent teaching by R.C. Sproul, and he came to a point where you can hear him cracking the chalk against the blackboard decisively with this equation: Faith + Works != Justification (‘!=’ is programmer shorthand for ‘not equal’) Faith = Justification + Works How the dust was flying! You can […]
John the Baptist and Jesus
“In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron.” Luke 1:5, NIV. Here we have a pretty obscure verse that shows us something very profound. John the Baptist is descended from the Levitical […]
Love is eternal because it does not depend on attributes
This is a response to an absolutely fascinating post by a guy named Peter Rollins. You can and should read his original post here:peterrollins.net/blog/?p=1231 It really got me thinking about some of the foundational aspects of grace and love, so I wanted to post my response on my own blog as a matter of record. […]