Recommended Read in the Washington Post: How the Bible was Used to Defend Slavery, and How Slaves Used it to Become Free

The Washington Post has an article that looks at the slavery issue and how the Bible was used from both perspectives. I thought it good enough to do a quick post and get it into this blog. 

Doug Quenzar from The Orchard in Door County, Wisconsin on Differing Bible Versions

Doug Quenzar from The Orchard in Door County, Wisconsin has a post on the church blog about how to choose a Bible version. This is a quick post that I wanted to add to this blog. This is one perspective in this area of differing Bible versions. 

As Hurricane Harvey Aims at Houston Jaron Jones of Shine Bible Fellowship Gets It; How Many Evangelical Pastors Fail to Address Situations in their Midst

As Hurricane Harvey is hitting Houston, Texas Jaron Jones of Shine Bible Fellowship in Cypress, Texas encourages and soothes his church by teaching the 91st Psalm about how God is a shelter in the storm. This is an EFCA pastor who gets it, and its my hope that the EFCA would have more Jaron Jones in its network. 

Wayne Grudem’s Un-Orthodox View of the Trinity and the Question that Must Be Asked: Can the ESV Bible be Trusted?

Today’s post looks at the issue of how the Trinity has historically been tampered with by sects, and un-orthodox theology systems such as the Mormons. Today the trinity is being re-defined by the Neo-Calvinists, and looks at Wayne Grudem and his advocating of Eternal Subordination of the Son theology. It begs the question….should we trust the ESV Bible given that the person deeply involved in the translation has a view of the Trinity which goes against the Nicene Creed?