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Block, Daniel, I. For the Glory of God: Recovering A Biblical Theology of Worship. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2014. 410 pp. $24.99 Biographical Sketch of the Author Daniel Block is a professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College and continues to travel around the world on the subject of worship. Author of fifteen books including many published articles and essays. This book, For the Glory of God: Recovering a Biblical Theology of Worship, is Blocks newest publication which is solely…

In this class, we have discussed a variety of methods to interpret the Bible, and the class lectures demonstrated the way in which Dr. Fuller interprets the New Testament. I find this perception of the New Testament to be significant. This method of interpretation integrates all the crucial concepts that are need to read the Bible. These concepts or tools that aid with the interpretation of the Bible are literary context, historical context, and cultural context. They are so vital when examining…

the motto for our country is "In God We Trust", so maybe all those that are believers in God should stay and just do as they were instructed by Jesus to love and serve others as He showed them by His example and His love, but always keeping their hearts and minds on God and things above. The bible is pretty clear about Christians seeking the kingdom of God first, and to walk by faith not by sight. There are many scriptures that discuss God 's grace which was shown by Jesus laying down His…

The first person that I chose to present my story to was my mother, Jan. I chose her because of the insight that she gives on the Bible and on life, and because of her continual faith in God through everything that she has been through, whether it’s hard or easy. I really look up to her in the way that she deals with hard times. She always chooses to believe that everything will be okay in the end, and that God has a plan for it all. I thought it would be perfect to tell her about this and ask…

The author of the article, Reasons to Question the Reliability of Scripture, wrote on the basis of trying to disprove or question the reliability of the New Testament by providing multiple arguments against the idea that the oral history of Luke and the other NT authors could be accurate. While I have an answer for all, I’m going to focus on a few that I believe are the most important to help clear up a basis for historical evidence before ever going into faith or Christianity as a theology. The…

Throughout Mark Shea’s 5 Myths about 7 Books, he discusses five suspicions held by Protestants as to why the “Apocryphal” books should be included within the Church’s Bible. To preface, this stance will be of dynamic inspiration, which claims that God adapts himself to the original audience of the text, allowing human writers to write according to their own experiences. Though this article there appears to be a hindsight bias as to the position of the deuterocanonical books and although Shea…

This weeks reading covered the introduction to the Old Testament, the different types of languages it was written in and the different types of language used such as poetry. Then the archeology of the Old Testament and the geography and information about early civilizations from the Fertile Crescent to Palestine. Reading also included canonization of the Old Testament, the various translations that have arisen from different sources, the textual criticism that lead to these different…

The Patience of Job? No Such Thing... Cox’s introduction talks about three stages of studying the bible. He gives insight on studying the bible through the narrative or literal stage during his younger years. He seemed to be fascinated with the stories of the bible as most children are. It was intriguing to not only learn of the characters in the the parables but he “also sometimes acted them out”. (Cox 2) The stories we hear as children are colorful, fun and full of life and love.…

The Bible may be the most printed and bestselling book in the world in the last 50 years, but only less than half of practicing American Christians spend time regularly engaging with it, according to the American Bible Society (ABS) based on evidence gathered by the Barna Group over a six-year period. During a presentation at the Movement Day Global Cities conference held at the Jacob Javits Center last week, ABS’ Project Ignition director Samuel Harrell presented evidence gathered by Barna from…

The Interpreting the New Testament written by Daniel Harrington explains how to use many forms of criticisms and methods to interpret the New Testament Bible. The examples of criticism and methods used to interpret the New Testament are literary criticism, textual criticism, source criticism, form criticism, historical criticism, redaction criticism, translations, words and motifs, parallels, and meaning of the text. These diverse methods have their own unique ways to interpret Scripture for…