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Biblically Evaluating “The Shack Up”– Part 1
“The Shack Up”? Is that the sequel to “The Shack”? Not quite. I’m talking about the idea of cohabitation before marriage. I’m talking about “moving in” with your boyfriend/girlfriend before you...
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Biblically Evaluating “The Shack Up”– Part 2
In the previous post, I introduced the topic of professing Christians “shacking up”, or cohabiting before marriage. I brought up a few common arguments for why professing believers may think about...
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Bible Bite: Those HEEEEATHEN Drums!
I was up before my kids today, working and doing some reading. I was in Exodus 15 and found myself reading Miriam’s song in Exodus 15:1-21. That’s a passage I’d love to preach on, especially in a...
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Derailing the “God Told Me” Train
A short while ago, Dan Phillips posted over at the CrippleGate and shared some great thoughts about the idea of God speaking outside Scripture. It got me thinking and reminded me of a rather...
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90 Minutes in Heaven on the Big Screen?
There’s an old saying on the internet: Wise words to live by. Okay… I say that as a bit of a joke, but not entirely. That’s the level of sheer stupid to which one has to plummet in order to make fun of...
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Quick Thoughts: Two Short Updates:
Before the Strange Fire conference in 2013, I did a rather extensive primer on the Charismatic Movement as represented in the top 50 largest churches in the US as represented by Outreach Magazine....
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The Truth About Angelic Visitations…
Hi-Ho readers! As you know, Fred Butler and I have been re-working our responses to Michael Brown’s book Authentic Fire and and preparing them to become a book. Being the somewhat perfectionist...
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Quick Thoughts: Two Cents of Eschatological Blubbering…
I was working on something and a stupid thought (picture, actually) lodged into my head so I’m getting rid of it (and sharing it too) in order to allow me to return to work. On the web, there are...
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A Biblical Exploration of Cremation…
…was going to be the study project that I was going to work on, but then I found out that someone had already done it. Back in 2006, Dr. Rodney Decker from Baptist Bible Seminary was a guest speaker...
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Quick Thoughts: A Little Advertising For Something Upcoming…
Well, it’s been almost a month since I’ve written anything on here! Yikes! I’d better punch something out before I run to bed! So what have I been doing? Well, I’ve been having a little fun at a few...
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Something REALLY Interesting…
I recently uncovered a little buried treasure tonight that I had to share! For a long time, I’ve utilized a simple argument with Mormons that I’ve found quite effective. When we talk about Mormonism...
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Quick Thoughts: How many times do I have to tell you…
I’m neck deep in reading to prepare for my upcoming conference sessions in April. As I’ve been going berserk in searching through old papers, archives, and innumerable books, I’ve run across plenty...
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The New Issue and Sweet Potatoes
It seems like everyone and their dog is hearing “the voice of God” these days. “Hearing the voice of God” used to be the mark of a prophet of God, but over the last century or so, it’s slowly become...
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Curiosity is killing me!
I was just working on updating my last post to go onto the Cripplegate when I saw today’s analytics. I’m all of a sudden getting more traffic from Sweden than from Canada. I regularly get a few dozen...
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William Seymour, textual critic?
Throughout the last century or so of church history, there have been continual debates about various issues to textual criticism and whether or not a few passages (namely John 7:53-8:11 and Mark...
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Who Really Started The Renewal?
The Renewal? What’s that? That is the term that none other than Jack Hayford uses to summarize all the various movements and denominations that have arisen over the last 115 (or so) years that have...
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So who do you think of when I say “Apostle of God”?
I’ve been reading and sorting through multiple books, using Jack Hayford’s The Charismatic Century as a jumping off point from which to fill in some historic blanks of the 70’s and 80’s. Jack was...
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Behind the Curtain of Research…
Well, it’s crunch time and I’m half done organizing my 200+ pages of research into outlines for my talks at the upcoming conference. I’ve got 2 done, and I’ve got 2 to go. It’s getting down to the...
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Hall of Shame – Always follow your notes!
Well, I just wrapped up giving four talk on the issue of the Charismatic Renewal movement. Things went pretty well (though as a speaker you never really know how things went; my self perception is...
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The History of the Renewal Movement – Part 1
As promised, I’m tossing up my notes from the Last Days Bible Conference. The audio from the conference (and possibly video: there were cameras there) isn’t up yet, and I am not sure when it will be....
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