On the Road to Emmaus

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Why Greek Matters (Part 6) – Christ in Ya’ll, the Hope of Glory

9 July, 2010 (19:41) | Gospels, Paul | No comments

I am not from Texas. I am not from anywhere remotely in the South. I am a Yankee to the core. Nevertheless, I believe one of the primary deficiencies of the formal English language is the lack of a word like “ya’ll.”
The Greek language (like many languages) has (at least) two forms of the word [...]

Opposition to Pre-Written Prayers Comes From the Spirit of the Age (Developing a Consistent Prayer Life Part 2)

18 July, 2009 (10:12) | Prayer | 3 comments

In my experience, whether talking to evangelicals or charismatics (or evangelical-charismatics), there seems to be a fairly strong opposition to using pre-written forms in either corporate or personal prayer. By this I am mostly referring to using prayers written by someone else. Even more specifically, I am speaking of using something akin to the historic [...]

Liturgical Explorations – A Prefatory Autobiographical Rumination (Part 3)

22 January, 2008 (01:41) | Personal | No comments

       About a year later, ( the most startling thing happened. Through some well meaning but misguided teaching from a few friends at school, I had grown in a somewhat anti-intellectual mindset. I learned to not trust the “wisdom of the world” (understood by me as anything intellectual). Though required to take Bible classes at [...]