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Creativity and Narrativity: The Role of Story in Preaching
By Blayne Banting, DMin, PhD Most preachers have encountered the experience in which members remark about the most memorable part of the sermon, and it was not what they expected. It was not the hard-won exegetical insight garnered by studious … Continue reading
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Navigating the Narratives through Rabbit Warrens: Identifying and Responding to the Ideologies of the Time
By Mark Naylor, DTh Introduction: Spirits of the Age In every era and society, ideologies, philosophies, and narratives—what Peter L. Berger (1967, 45) calls “plausibility structures,” and Charles Taylor (2007, 171) refers to as “the social imaginary”—shape and guide people’s … Continue reading
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New Testament Greek Terms and Mark’s Gospel: Hermeneutical Inquiries (Reprinted from Fall 2019)
Larry J. Perkins, PhD Hermeneutics is all about meaning. Bible expositors attempt to understand and explain how language works, orally and textually, and especially how it communicates meaning. Precise discernment of meaning arises from a comprehensive knowledge of a language’s[1] … Continue reading
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People with Disabilities included into the Body of Christ
By Monica Gartner This paper includes lived experience along with academic references to illustrate that churches need to include people with disabilities in the body of Christ. People with disabilities are essential and a gifted part of the church community, … Continue reading
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The Global Health Crisis of Loneliness and The Church’s Response
By Anne Mackie Morelli, BPP, MA, RCC Traditionally the church has been perceived to be a place of belonging and rich community. More recently, there are indications that this view does not match every person’s church experience. There is increasing … Continue reading
Jazz and Moral Epistemology: A Very Belated Response to Sharon Welch
By Bradley K. Broadhead, PhD It is no secret that political divisions in the Western world are widening. Each side demonizes the other while portraying itself as morally upright, or at least superior to the other. Issues such as minority … Continue reading
The Difference the Presence of Jesus Makes
By Wes Linde, MACS There is a visible difference for Christians who consider how they are the visible presence of Jesus in their communities. Since the beginning of the Christian church, Christians have wrestled with deciding how a church can … Continue reading
Living in Perpetual ‘Sabbath’
By Larry Perkins, PhD In the last three decades, increased interest in the nature and practice of spiritual disciplines among evangelical Christians has encouraged theologians of spirituality and spiritual mentors to devote more attention to Sabbath practices as a ‘spiritual … Continue reading
Possibility or Problem? – Art and Worship: First Steps to Increasing Forms of Worship in Gathered Worship Services
By Mark Jonah, DWS Introduction The use of music in the gathered worship services of evangelical Christians is self-evident. One can easily observe the predominant use of music in the worship services of most evangelical denominations. The two main actions … Continue reading
How Can the Bible Guide Our Consumption?
By Brian Albright, PhD Financial decisions can be connected to several challenges that people face in life. Personal debt and working long hours can cause stress on families. The businesses that supply people’s needs are regularly accused of harming the climate … Continue reading
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Evangelicals and Liturgy
By Lorn Gieck, DWS Introduction After ignoring liturgy for centuries many evangelical churches are experimenting with it. This article is an attempt to understand why and how, after all this time, a new renewal of worship is occurring in the … Continue reading
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The Anonymous King: A Foundation for a Messianic Reading of the Psalter
While scholarship on the Psalms has a long history, a more recent movement has been to study the Psalms not as a mere collection of individual pieces but as a whole, an editorially crafted book…. Continue reading
Help, Lord, I have Spiritual E/BD
By Kenneth A. Pudlas, EdD For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not … Continue reading
Singing With Jesus: The Psalms in Christian Worship
By Ken Michell, DWS In the conversations surrounding worship music in the North American Protestant church, discussions tend to revolve around a simple dichotomy: traditional hymnody versus contemporary worship. Into this debate, Barry Liesch proposed that both be recognized as … Continue reading