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Author Archives: Alastair Roberts
Mediations Wrapped in Mediations
I recently wrote a piece contrasting the Song of Solomon with pornography. It has now been posted over on The Media Res (lots of other great stuff there – do take a look!): The Song is a celebration of mediation. It … Continue reading
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Scorn and the Culture Wars
Timothy Dalrymple writes concerning the growing tendency among progressive Christians to launch vituperative and scornful attacks against ugly liberal caricatures of conservative Christians in order to represent themselves as more loving to the world. He remarks: This is selling anger, … Continue reading
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On Making a Prophet: Pentecost and the Church’s Mission, Part 5
And they were all filled with the Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. – Acts 2:4 The terminology of being ‘filled with the Spirit’ is found in the lxx, where it is … Continue reading
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On Making a Prophet: Pentecost and the Church’s Mission, Part 4
Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. – Acts 2:3 As a primal symbol fire possesses a superabundance of symbolic associations, rendering it difficult for us to discern the particular … Continue reading
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On Making a Prophet: Pentecost and the Church’s Mission, Part 3
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. – Acts 2:2 The context having been set in the previous verse, the events associated with … Continue reading
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Part 1 Now when the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. – Acts 2:1 In setting the scene for the events of Pentecost, Luke immediately…
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Originally posted on Alastair's Adversaria:
The following is the first in a series of several posts, exploring the prophetic role of the church and the meaning of the Baptism of the Spirit. The first chapter of the book of…
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On Making a Prophet: Pentecost and the Church’s Mission Series
I started posting a series of posts on the subject of Pentecost and the Church’s mission a few years ago, but never got around to completing the series before my old blog fell dormant. I thought that now would be … Continue reading
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The Psalms in Worship
Ben Myers has some wonderful thoughts on the place and importance of the Psalms in worship: I sometimes worry that our hymnbooks – where you have a more or less arbitrary selection of songs, arranged by various doctrinal and liturgical … Continue reading
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