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To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house ...more

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Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.

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The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that church for its work in the world, and that serious ...more

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The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with the following analogy. He says that by reading a ...more

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Layer upon layer it comes, dense and rich within the texts, echo upon echo, allusion and resonance tumbling over one another, so that for those with e...more

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Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

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Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship...more