Today for Bible college I completed a paper on sex and other addiction within the gay and lesbian community. The research that I read documenting addictions was phenomenal and it revealed some very interesting trends, including above-average drug addiction particularly among the lesbian community. Another interesting finding was that lesbians are as promiscuous as gay [...]
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Papers on GBLT Addictions and Shepherding the Same-Sex Attracted
Posted in Pastoral Ministry, Redeemed Sexuality, Sexuality, USSA on 18 May, 2012 (Friday) | Leave a Comment »
Torah: Guide and Stipulation
Posted in Meditation on God, Old Testament on 28 March, 2012 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
When I first became a Christian back in 1998, as I finished my last year at school, I threw myself into the Old Testament (the First Covenant) almost as much as I threw myself into the New (Second Covenant). I figured that because the Bible was roughly 2/3 OT and 1/3 NT that getting into [...]
Gems of the Noahic Covenant
Posted in Covenant on 14 March, 2012 (Wednesday) | 1 Comment »
In my Old Testament Covenants elective today at the Wesley Institute we put under the ‘microscope’ the account of Noah and the Flood in Genesis 6-9 to look at how it fit in with the bigger picture of the Old Testament. I learned so many tremendous insights that I wanted to share them here for [...]
Scripture and Emotions
Posted in Bible college, Feelings/Affect, Healing and Restoration on 6 March, 2012 (Tuesday) | Leave a Comment »
Not long ago a professor of mine at Bible college emailed me an academic paper on the issue of emotions and the role they play in Scripture. I found it a very interesting read and thought I would post it here for others to be challenged and encouraged by.
Mercy Seat in the Bible
Posted in Bible college on 28 October, 2011 (Friday) | Leave a Comment »
I always thought the Biblical notion of ‘Mercy Seat’ was a euphemism for the loo: it used to make me wonder, ‘Does God also sit on the loo?’ :) (Hebrews 9:5b – the Mercy Seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.) No wonder these things must not be spoken of in detail!
Jesus never spoke against homosexuality … so it’s ok?
Posted in Healing and Restoration, Quotes, Redeemed Sexuality, Sexuality, Theology Study on 24 October, 2011 (Monday) | 2 Comments »
One of the many common arguments as to why homosexuality is ok, is because Jesus was supposedly silent on the subject. It’s an interesting, albeit weak, argument. Others are somewhat like it: Jesus never said anything about it explicitly. Why? Because Jesus doesn’t care about what people do with their bits and bobs when having [...]
Adolph Saphir: On God Alone
Posted in Theology Study on 11 October, 2011 (Tuesday) | Leave a Comment »
Adolph Saphir, a Messianic Jew who lived in the 19th century (see left) wrote something that I recently stumbled upon in a book, ‘The Deep Things of God: how the Trinity Changes Everything’ by Fred Sanders: “And now the rule of man began. For if instead of God we have the Bible, the task of [...]
Exegetical Essay on Judges 17
Posted in Bible college, Old Testament on 22 September, 2011 (Thursday) | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I handed in an exegetical essay on the riches of Judges 17, the idolatry of a man named Micah. If you’d like to read it, you can do so here. As culpable as Micah is of his idolatry, I really feel for him, because he is so lost, being in a family that is [...]
He Began With Moses
Posted in Old Testament, Preaching (Homiletics) on 14 September, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
One of my Bible college lecturers edited a book on preaching the Old Testament named ‘He Began With Moses’. It has some terrific material on how to preach lament, how to preach Song of Solomon, how to preach the law, and other pertinent topics.
Lord’s Passover Meal
Posted in Theology Study on 5 September, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
Some people reckon the Lord’s Passover Meal (Eucharist/ Last Supper/ Lord’s Supper) is merely symbolic, and some don’t even celebrate it at all. This is the extreme view of Reformer Zwingli, which views the LS as being merely ‘symbolic’ and deny the connection with the Passover meal in the OT. The Catholic and Lutheran [...]
