“Enjoy this animated illustrated bible story of the events surrounding Jesus’ birth from The Jesus Storybook Deluxe Edition, written by Sally Lloyd-Jones, illustrated by Jago, and read by David Suchet.” Even though it’s getting late in the piece, The Jesus Storybook Bible is a great gift, now or anytime. Literate, theologically insightful and charming. Every …

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An interesting piece from Phillip Jensen on evangelical worship. In it Jensen observes: many evangelicals are choosing to turn away from the evangelical faith when it comes to their worship. Our worship should reflect our theology. In fact it nearly always does reflect our theology. Unfortunately sometimes what it reflects is confusion in theology. When …

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From Strawberry-Rhubarb Theology. There is always a danger of squeezing the Bible into a mold we bring to it rather than letting the Bible mold us. And, there could hardly be more diversity within the Protestant canon–diverse genres, historical settings, authors, literary levels, ages of history. But while the Bible is not uniform, it is …

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I love references to Revelation 21:1, the sea-less future. Here Scotty Smith weaves together a prayer of praise and trust as a result of meditating on that picture. As Smith points out, a sea-less future does not mean we’ll never get our toes wet in the renewed creation. Then I saw a new heaven and …

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