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Effective delegation strategies to empower your team, scale productivity & achieve success as a leader or entrepreneur.

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28 May

I Didn't Like Your Post

A brief meditation on Facebook, fear, and the love (fear) of men.

12 Jan

Be Gone!

Mental health ... or ill-health. We have treasure in jars of clay. This poem spilled onto the page one afternoon after

11 Mar

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Reading Psalms: 5. A Compilation of Poetry

Unlike other books of the Bible, Psalms and Proverbs are overtly and easily recognisable as compilations of material. Even if Proverbs is loosely 'of Solomon' and Psalms is 'of David', each book is clear that there are several - or, indeed, many - authors.

25 Aug

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Reading Psalms: 4. Which King?

As we read Psalms, we've been growing in our understanding of the Messiah: Jesus. In doing so, we’ve jumped quickly from the Psalm to the Psalm-as-about-Jesus. Strictly speaking, however, these Psalms come to us not independent of but through history.

18 Aug

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Reading Psalms: 3. Who?

In any text of the Bible one of the foundational questions we have to ask is ‘who is speaking?’ and ‘who is being spoken to?’ Identifying who the pronouns of a text belong to - and where we belong in that, if anywhere at all - is a key aspect to faithful reading.

17 Aug

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Reading Psalms: 2. Poets of Rare Words

Hebrew poetry leaves verbs behind. It still has them, but it has them far less frequently than it does in prose. In fact, there was a period of time where some scholars resorted to a statistical analysis of verbs in ratio to nouns to identify poetry vs prose!

11 Aug

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Reading Psalms: 1. Hebrew Poetry Repeats Itself

What is poetry? More so, what is Hebrew poetry? While poetry is generally an easy genre to identify, and we tend to know it when we see it, what are the distinguishing features of Hebrew poetry?

04 Aug

𐄌 Biblical Theology

Does the Church Have Priests?

You might think that such a simple question has a very simple answer: unfortunately not! Let me take you through what the Bible says about priests and church, some translation issues and mistakes made in history, and then summarise.

23 Jun

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Thinking After the Trinity: A Letter, A Word, & A Dance

Trinity Sunday appropriately comes after Pentecost (the Father’s giving of the Spirit through the Son). The appropriateness reflects the history of the church’s formulations of biblical doctrine, which took over three centuries to thrash out.

16 Jun

𐄌 Biblical Theology

Who Is The Holy Spirit?

Many Christians feel the need to promote the Spirit’s personhood in terms of his uniqueness, else we ‘forget’ or ‘neglect’ the Holy Spirit. But the unasked question remains: does the Spirit himself feel the need to define his personhood in this way?

09 Jun

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Faithfulness and Fruitfulness in Ministry

Co-Authored with Dan McKinlay. In this age of salvation, God not only brings us into his kingdom through Jesus, but gives us the joy of participating in the work of proclaiming that kingdom as well. What, then, is our responsibility before God?

02 Jul

Bored of The Cross?

What distinguishes Jesus’ crucifixion from every other performed by the Romans? Tens of thousands were crucified. And it doesn’t take much for us to remember Spartacus, where there was the mass crucifixion of 6,000 people along the Appian Way.

03 Jul

Depression, Anxiety, and Work

We have responsibility before God to work; we are not to be lazy. But what does this mean for the person who suffers from depression or anxiety? Because depression and anxiety can outwardly resemble the all characteristics of laziness.

26 Jun

A Real-World Bible

Epimenides and Menander. 1 Enoch and 2 Esdras, and the Assumption of Moses. What do each of these authors and books have in common?Their commonality is that they are all quoted in the New Testament.The Bible is a real-world Bible.

22 May

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Reading or Speaking The Bible?

Writing is an act of speech; reading is an act of listening. This is helpful to remember, since, particularly in memory cultures, the written word often functioned as the preservation of or aid to recall the spoken; texts were read out loud.

15 May