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Answering 04: Radicals

Posted on April 8, 2016 by ehurst

We are more radical than radicals. The world “radical” implies a plan to cut things back to the very roots and try to grow a better crop the next time. What we do here in our parish is more like … Continue reading →

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Psalm 95

Posted on April 2, 2016 by ehurst

This is another very popular psalm, the basis for several contemporary songs and quotations in the New Testament. It’s also the first of a half-dozen poems celebrating divine sovereignty. They fit into the general type of processional hymns. We can … Continue reading →

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Perverted Professional Standards

Posted on March 28, 2016 by ehurst

There’s a burden on my mind about church leadership. I’ll pick the occasion of Tullian Tchividjian’s professional meltdown for my opinionated screed. The linked story includes more detail than most accounts in the popular media. Let’s pretend it’s accurate, though … Continue reading →

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A Sample of Dispie Folly

Posted on March 20, 2016 by ehurst

For those of you inclined to understand the madness of Dispensationalism from a safe distance, I wanted to share with you an outline of some primary features. This comes from a study offered at Jesus-Is-Lord: Dispensational theology centers upon the … Continue reading →

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If People Can Talk Out of Their Butts…

Posted on March 18, 2016 by ehurst

It’s typical of Western intellectual processes to get things backward. We have a long, fat record of theologians and teachers insisting that we have to lean more toward a literal rendering of Scripture. This legalistic approach has caused no end … Continue reading →

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Published: Proverbs Bible Study

Posted on March 11, 2016 by ehurst

Published! The be exact, the official title is Ancient Truth: Proverbs. You can find the webpage page version here (site is gone as of 2020) and the ebook at Smashwords here.

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Proverbs 31

Posted on March 10, 2016 by ehurst

We don’t know who Lemuel was nor should we let the question distract us. About the only useful scholarship we have on the source of this chapter tells us that it seems Aramaic in grammar and character of expression. Up … Continue reading →

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Meta: Second Edition of Study in Revelation

Posted on March 7, 2016 by ehurst

Finally got my butt in gear and finished rewriting the Bible study guide for John’s Revelation. You can read it at this link: Ancient Truth: Revelation (2nd ed) As with everything else, you are free to save it and keep … Continue reading →

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Perfect Tense

Posted on March 3, 2016 by ehurst

The ultimate power on this earth is the power to remain focused on the moral demands of the Spirit Realm. It’s not even a question of the ability to act on such a focus, but merely to keep that focus … Continue reading →

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Rewrite: Revelation 18

Posted on March 2, 2016 by ehurst

As I’m working through my study in Revelation, I realized I left out an awful lot. Here is a sample of the revised material. My whole idea is that you climb out of moral distraction and find the peace God … Continue reading →

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