Study Deadlines
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009I think if I am going to make any progress on this commentary at all, I am going to have to change my study procedure somewhat, and provide some self-imposed deadlines. My procedure so far has been to study the text, write the commentary, then do validation research by reading the commentaries on the passage. [...]
New Approach to Scripture – Part II
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Let me discuss a bit further on how I plan to approach this commentary. First, this is a massive undertaking, and so I cannot focus on everything at once. I will try, to the best of my ability, to work through one book of the Bible at a time before moving on to another. Ideally, I would [...]
New Approach to People
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009My new approach to people can be summed up in one word: GRACE. Though I used to speak, teach, and write a lot about grace, I wasn’t so good at showing it. I used to have high demands of people, expecting them to study the Bible as much as I did (even though I was a pastor, and getting [...]
New Approach to Scripture
Friday, January 2nd, 2009Ultimately, this commentary is an attempt to flesh out a new approach to Scripture which I call Redemptive Incarnational Hermeneutics. (Sounds fancy, right? I did, after all, attend semitary.) This is an approach to Scripture I have been thinking through for about two years now. But recently, I have stumbled across several authors and teachers who already use [...]
New Approach to God
Thursday, December 25th, 2008One reason I am writing this Grace Commentary is to feel out and flesh out a new approach to God that I have been mulling over in my head. The approach presented in this post (as with all posts on this site) is to be taken as a work-in-progress. ———————————– Is God SumOne? Probably the primary area of theology [...]
Welcome!
Thursday, October 9th, 2008Welcome to the Online Interactive Grace Commentary! What qualifies a person to write a commentary on the Bible? When you turn to a commentary for Bible study (or pick up any book at all) how do you decide if the author should be listened to? Do you generally turn to the back cover and read the little blurb [...]