Archive for July, 2008
Was Jesus’ Sacrifice a Sacrifice for Him? Part 2
July 27th, 2008 by Dale Fincher
Some great comments came from Part 1 of this question. See earlier entry here. As you know, when a question is posted to you, there are a myriad of ways to take it. What assumptions are behind the question? What is the questioner really getting at? What does he or she want to know? This [...]
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On writing for the Trends
July 17th, 2008 by Dale Fincher
I finished Strunk and White’s Elements of Style this morning. As you may know E. B. White is a master writer, most famous for Charlotte’s Web. White concluded my reading lighting up a dark temptation. His reminder is to writers specifically and, I add, to saints in general: It is now necessary to warn the [...]
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Was Jesus’ Sacrifice a Sacrifice for Him?
July 15th, 2008 by Dale Fincher
I received this question last week: Would you say that Jesus dying on the cross was not a huge sacrifice for Him? How would you answer this? If Jesus knew he’d get his life back, does that lessen the sacrifice? I’ll give you how I responded in the next post. What are your thoughts?
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What is a "Christian"?
July 11th, 2008 by Dale Fincher
My friend, Rachel Wolf, a Jew with a storied history in the Messianic movement, wrote the following piece for the Messianic Times (reprinted here with her permission). Read this, press into it, what does it do to your understanding of “Christian”? What if God was calling the non-Jewish human world into some form of Jewishness? [...]
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