One Pastor’s Eye on The Book of Eli
By John W. Frye
[This review was posted on Jesus Creed hosted by Dr. Scot McKnight.]
Who would have imagined a 21st century movie made about The King James Version of the Bible? Denzel Washington’s The Book of Eli puts the 1611 Bible dead center in the story. The tag [...]
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Like many holidays, Valentine’s Day is arrayed with a myriad of stories and legends.* Several St. Valentines did live in the early centuries of the church. One set of stories tells of Valentine’s arrest under the Roman Emperor Claudius who tried to persuade Valentine to renounce Christianity and take up Roman pagan religion. Valentine did [...]
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Over at Jesus Creed, Scot McKnight posted a young doubter’s struggles. Scot invited Jesus Creeders to offer sensitive counsel and Scot, then, posted his own response to the young leader. In light of this, note the “Great Commission” text below:
16Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to [...]
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Julie and I walked away from The Invention of Lying discussing the provocative premise of the film. Starring and written by Ricky Gervais, the film has creative British humor and a magnetic story. Human beings only tell the truth no matter how blunt and offensive (to us the viewers) it may seem. The truth-telling people [...]
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Posted in Culture, Jesus, Ministry, Reviews on Dec 15th, 2009
This will be our final reflection on Ben F. Meyer’s The Aims of Jesus, covering chapters VIII and IX. Again, I admit that this is a challenging book to comprehend, but well worth the effort. In these chapters I see the influence of Ben Meyer on N.T. Wright.
I heard New Testament scholar Dr. Scot McKnight [...]
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Posted in Culture, Jesus, Ministry, Theology on Dec 10th, 2009
Worth the price of the book: chapter VII of Ben F Meyer’s The Aims of Jesus.
Meyer discerns from Jesus’ proclamation (of the kingdom of God) and his public actions that Jesus worked toward “a stunningly unexpected restoration of Israel” (173).
While there is much in chapter 7, I want to focus on Jesus’ habit of “table [...]
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