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Saturday 24th October with Dr Alastair Roberts and Steve Hayhow.
Pretty good. A good place to begin and get a sense of the breadth of the issues.
goodreads.com/book/show/2362…
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Saturday 24th October with Dr Alastair Roberts and Steve Hayhow.
10:00am northlondonchurch.org
5. The Message to Smyrna- A New Paradigm for Suffering.
An essential part of the Bavinck corpus.
goodreads.com/book/show/4111…
is the “man’s world “ portrayed in Clary’s book , the one we find in Acts? It seems all the wrong people see central - widows, female household heads, jailers, eunuchs - not the high performance crowd. But they do make progress. That’s who God uses.
Clary’s book stresses more the high octane masculine culture that he applauds, and that has much that is commendable. Sometimes the book sounds like manly courage and gusto is how things move forward, of course with reliance on the gospel. But…
As someone who takes more postmillennial view of the future, this critique seems to land much of the time, but I wonder if there’s a bit more to be said. How does the Kingdom progress? It seems that it is through suffering and martyrdom, yet…
Michael Clary has put his finger on some weaknesses in contemporary reformed and evangelical social engagement. He calls this “loser theology”- not theology for losers so much as the love of the glorious defeat. But.… goodreads.com/book/show/2543…
Michael Clary has put his finger on some weaknesses in contemporary reformed and evangelical social engagement. He calls this “loser theology”- not theology for losers so much as the love of the glorious defeat. But.… goodreads.com/book/show/2543…
A short book with the limited purpose of showing most of the reformed historically believed in a future conversion of the Jews. How or whether this has a bearing on the current Middle Eastern situation is another matter. goodreads.com/book/show/2425…
Read Beowulf. The story of a pagan told by a Christian . goodreads.com/book/show/5235…
Mary Harrington interviews James Merritt on his literacy book- podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
These two volumes have been great- a mix of exegesis, wider biblical and theological reflection but also rich cultural application. goodreads.com/book/show/2777…
10:00 am Sunday at northlondonchurch.org. The Message to the Church at Ephesus- How to hold truth and live together.
