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But not far…. Well I’ve decided to move all future my writings to this site: http://www.kvile.net/ . Everything that is currently here will remain, but probably will not be updated. Please update any of your links. I hope to see you there!

The emergence of the postmodern world has brought much discussion to the evangelical church. Is the current church modern? Should it become postmodern? How can the church reach a changing culture? What should it look like? In answer to these kinds of questions, Webber writes this timely book: Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking […]

HT: Tim Challies, Zach Nielsen, B-Lo

We are having some interesting conversation over at mereconversation about the emerging church and postmodernism. More specifically about how postmodernism impacts the church in today’s culture. Stop by and share your thoughts, what could be more postmodern than that… conversation.
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Today is the final part of this seven part series of an narrative analysis of this passage in the Gospel of John in which I present my final brief conclusion. I hope that this series has been of value to you. Please let me know what you thought of it, good or bad! Here are […]

Here’s a two part lesson on translating the original Hebrew of Genesis 1:1, written with the beginner in mind. Let me know what you think!
Part One | Part Two
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We are coming near to the end of our narrative analysis of this passage from the Gospel of John. Today we will look at the plot of the narrative. If you need to catch up, here are the links to previous articles.
Part One - Introduction | Part Two - Rhetoric | Part Three - Irony […]

Yesterday we looked at the setting of his passage. Today we will examine its character: Jesus, Pilate, the Jews, and other supporting characters.
Part One - Introduction | Part Two - Rhetoric | Part Three - Irony | Part Four - Setting
Character
Jesus
Despite the fact that Pilate is the only character to appear consistently throughout the narrative, […]

Continuing our analysis of the narrative. today we will look at the setting. If you need to catch up, here are links to the first three parts of the analysis.
Part One - Introduction | Part Two - Rhetoric | Part Three - Irony
Setting
The architectural setting of this particular pericope plays a role in how it […]

Continuing our narrative analysis of this passage in the Gospel of John, today we will look at the irony involved in it. Irony in the Gospel of John is the largest of all the rhetoric. Here are links to the previous parts if you need to catch up.
Part 1 - Introduction | Part 2 - […]

Yesterday we began our look at this narrative in the Gospel of John with part one of our analysis. We looked briefly at the structure and any textual issues of importance in this section. Today we begin our focus on the rhetorical elements of the narrative: namely, theme, repetition, motif, type scenes, figures of speech, figures of […]

Last semester I took a class on the Gospel of John. For the final paper of that class I did a brief narrative analysis of the trial of Jesus by Pilate. This begins a series of posts on that analysis. First I will give a short introduction on what the paper (series of posts) is about, […]