Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

In The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible, Scot McKnight explores, explains, defends, and rebukes the various ways Christians read the Bible.
He spends the early pages of the book unfolding his hyper-conservative upbringing – the type that basks in phrases like “God said, I believe it, that settles it for me!” He, like [...]

  1. Always start with scripture, I prefer the ESV online (http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/)
2. Type the word or topic you want to study into the search box
3. Make sure you have pen and paper handy
4. Start reading through the verses returned by the search. Some of them may not really contribute much to your study; it’s ok [...]

This is a guest post by Edgar de Blieck, who blogs at Sincere Ignorance and Conscientious Stupidity
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   If you look at the bible passages which deal with creation (not just Genesis, by the way) then it is clear that the bible says that God made and directed the making of everything. In other words, from [...]

Ok, I’m done now… I told Anne Marie not to let me go out again.
Here’s the academic stack:

…and the other stack. You’ll notice I out the Bell and Pagitt books between some more solid theological works.  I tried to put them closer to MacArthur but there were sparks.

By the way, we’re going Rob Bell’s church [...]

This town is a gold mine. I bought the stack below at a mall -  A MALL! And I only went through half of what they had so I’ll be going back today. I didn’t pay more than $4.99 for any of these.

 Top book is by Ratzinger (BXVI).  I’ve skimmed it and his writing is [...]

I always buy a lot of books at this time of the year.  Tomorrow we’re heading for Grand Rapids where I’ll buy a few dozen more.  Below are spine pics of some that I bought this week.
I picked these up one night at a thrift store and at Chapters in the discount section:

 
I picked up [...]

Here is the finished product (as a PDF or Word Doc) of the project I started with this post.
Enjoy, critque, ignore… your choice.
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the Ottawa Senators.
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From a two-part interview with Darryl Dash:
How do we change in order to contextualize without changing the gospel?
That is the practical question in ministry. If you under-contextualize your ministry and message, no one’s life will be changed because they’ll be too confused about what you are saying. But if you over-contextualize your ministry and your [...]

*See this post for explanation and ground rules, commentary on vv 18-20 and this post for commentary on v 21.
 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
They chose to ignore the wisdom of God, [...]

*See this post for explanation and ground rules, commentary on vv 18-20 and this post for commentary on vv 22-25.
21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
They knew who God was [...]