Random Acts of Verbiage

All Saints Church – Bill Berger Hebrews 12:28-19:9 Message Notes “The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.” -C.S. Lewis One of our church values: Authentic Community – Believe, doubt, seek. All on the journey together. The importance of community: cf 12.28-29: the consuming fire [...]

I’ve finally had the chance to start reading Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision, N.T. Wright‘s response to critics of The New Perspective on Paul with specific discussion of Piper’s The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright. I’m sure I will have comments about the book at a later time (I do [...]

All Saints Church – Bill Berger – Hebrews 12:18-29 This section is about us living the unshakable life, the life we want, the life that we would go to the self-help section for. We are looking for stability. The Shakable Life: v18-21. Fundamental spiritual approach to life: with our worldview, how do we deal with [...]

This business with Comedy Central, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and censorship is completely ridiculous. I won’t discuss the whole thing, Powerline has up a post, Bleeping Muhammad, that has some great things to read. I want to comment on two things: 1) how cowardly Comedy Central is, and 2) the Muslim double standard. In [...]

In a previous post (Bruce Waltke and the Reformed Theological Seminary), I noted that (emeritus Regent professor) Waltke and RTS have some differences of opinion on the interpretation which subsequently lead to their parting of ways. Tonight, Waltke posted to his facebook account a note that I have copied below. His comments on how we [...]

All Saints Church – Bill Berger – Message Notes Hebrews 12:1-13 Looking out how to flourish in life through all the pain and difficulties. Need the endurance. But it is easy to quit, especially in our culture. We haven’t been taught to deal with or fight through pain and suffering. Life is a Race: vs [...]