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Theological Summit at Winebrenner


Last night was Winebrenner Seminary’s Theological Summit. It is a one day (8 hour) school wide class that concerns itself with a particular yearly topic. This year’s topic is the kingdom of God. There is one summit each semester, so this was the second summit this year. Both dealt with various aspects of the yearly […]

Seminary Papers


For those of you interested, I’ve just created a new section on my website here. It’s called ‘Papers’ and it contains a collection of my writings while in Seminary (most of them). While they are probably not terribly interesting to read, I thought I’d put them up here and see if anyone has any thoughts […]

Hermeneutical Lesson in Romans Part 2


Well, its been awhile since i wrote last. I know you were all anxiously awaiting the conclusion to the first part of my background research on Romans. So here it is.
Last time we looked briefly at the situation of the church at Rome. This time I would like to discuss the situation of Paul himself, […]

A Hermeneutic Lesson in Romans Part 1


My studies at Winebrenner have turned me to the topic of a passage in Romans. The section I am to write a paper and teaching outline on is Romans 14:13-17 which discusses judging one another. A topic that is quite apro po for our culture today. What does it mean to judge, when do we […]

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You might ask, what in the world are you talking about? Well let me tell you. This is a concept that is brought up in the book First Theology by Kevin Vanhoozer (check out my library) that I have been ready as part of my hermeneutics class. It is used in philosophical conversations to […]

Reading


Reading, reading, reading… that is what I am doing now-a-days and when I am done reading, I read some more. Not that I’m complaining, I enjoy reading very much, but there is just so much to read and so little time to do it. Let alone the fact that there are so many books I […]