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2 thessalonians 3 and the emerging christian movement

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1644, 7th September, 2010
And by “emerging Christian movement,” I speak not of the “Emerging/Emergent Church” movement of today but rather the original Christian movement while it was first emerging, during the period of Paul’s letters.
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a nail from jesus’ crucifixion?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1709, 3rd March, 2010
Claude Marriotini reports it. The story goes thusly:  The Knights Templars, a secretive religious association of the Middle Ages, are said to have had a fort.  In that fort, a nail has recently been found.  What is amazing about this is that the nail is believed to date from the 1st century A.D., the same [...]
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on biblical historicity

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0226, 26th February, 2010
Here‘s an argument for Adam being a real historical figure.  It goes at it not from an angle that focuses on the meaning of particular Hebrew or Greek words or phrases, but rather from the doctrine of the fall and its centrality to our understanding of who Jesus is and what he did for us.  [...]
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the health and wealth ungospel? and some thoughts on scripture

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1918, 1st February, 2010
No matter how much we try, we can’t beat the Bible for dealing with issues in a way that fully honors the complexity of the real world while still whittling down the very essence of things into simplistic stories.  It’s honestly amazing to me.  And so today I will let a story Jesus told speak [...]
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build your own jesus?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1743, 28th December, 2009
There are, in a variety of places, little “Build a Bear” enterprises. They work like this: You go to a vender of build-a-bears, and the vender shows you an assortment of bear parts, which you are then free to put together into your own bear, and you pay the vender for this. That’s right. The [...]
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get behind me, satan! how sometimes jesus smacks us in the face (so to speak)

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2103, 16th December, 2009
The passage I’m about to speak about is a passage which is very controversial between Protestants and Catholics. I’ll bet you can figure out my position on that. But what I want to look at is another angle of what’s being said in the text, about Peter as a person, and how that applies to [...]
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beyond the canon list

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0138, 7th December, 2009
It would be nice to say that once we’ve got Jesus and the canon settled, that’s the end of the story. And it would be partially true. If you read the books of the Bible, no matter what translation they are in (unless it is by some sort of weird group purposefully altering the text), [...]
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the single foundational truth of christianity

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2017, 6th December, 2009
There is at the very basis of Christianity, (and therefore at the very basis of my blog), one single truth: that Jesus Christ is the son of God, sent to the earth to die, and then that he was raised from the third day. Whether Jesus was really raised is the central question of Christianity.
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