StephenBarkley.com » Weekend Wisdom http://stephenbarkley.com Reader ~ Writer ~ Pastor ~ Paddler Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:00:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Intelligent Intellectualism | G. K. Chesterton http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/06/14/intelligent-intellectualism-g-k-chesterton/ http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/06/14/intelligent-intellectualism-g-k-chesterton/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:00:33 +0000 Stephen Barkley http://stephenbarkley.com/?p=5344 She hasn’t got any intellect to speak of; but you don’t need any intellect to be an intellectual. —G. K. Chesterton, The Scandal of Father Brown in The Complete Father Brown, 830.

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]]> http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/05/31/defining-god-miroslav-volf/feed/ 0 Infernal Misunderstanding | G. K. Chesterton http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/05/24/infernal-misunderstanding-g-k-chesterton/ http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/05/24/infernal-misunderstanding-g-k-chesterton/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 10:00:23 +0000 Stephen Barkley http://stephenbarkley.com/?p=5282 Shall I tell you something that sounds like what they call a paradox? Sometimes it is a joy in the very heart of hell to tell the truth. And, above all, to tell it so that everybody misunderstands it. —G. K. Chesterton, “The Worst Crime in the World” in The Secret of Father Brown in The Complete [...]

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]]> http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/05/17/helpful-miracles-miroslav-volf/feed/ 0 Godly Pluralism | Miroslav Volf http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/05/10/godly-pluralism-miroslav-volf/ http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/05/10/godly-pluralism-miroslav-volf/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 10:00:32 +0000 Stephen Barkley http://stephenbarkley.com/?p=5272 If “all things came into being through him [the Word], and without him not one thing came into being” (1:3), plurality as a social fact, along with plurality as a metaphysical fact, is not only obviously affirmed but is also traced back to God’s creative activity. —Miroslav Volf, Captive to the Word of God: Engaging [...]

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]]> http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/05/10/godly-pluralism-miroslav-volf/feed/ 0 Nonexistent Faith | Douglas J. Moo http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/05/03/nonexistent-faith-douglas-j-moo/ http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/05/03/nonexistent-faith-douglas-j-moo/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 10:00:22 +0000 Stephen Barkley http://stephenbarkley.com/?p=5264 Faith that is not accompanied by works ceases to be. —Douglas J. Moo, The Letter of James (The Pillar New Testament Commentary), 144.

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]]> http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/04/26/the-value-of-a-single-moment-nicolas-berdyaev/feed/ 0 Worship & Feelings | Eugene H. Peterson http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/04/19/worship-feelings-eugene-h-peterson/ http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/04/19/worship-feelings-eugene-h-peterson/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:00:19 +0000 Stephen Barkley http://stephenbarkley.com/?p=5259 I have never said that we worship because we feel like it. Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshiped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. Feelings are important in many areas but completely unreliable in matters of faith. … Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not [...]

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]]> http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/04/19/worship-feelings-eugene-h-peterson/feed/ 0 Humanity and the Movement of God | Leonard Sweet & Frank Viola http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/04/12/humanity-and-the-movement-of-god-leonard-sweet-frank-viola/ http://stephenbarkley.com/2013/04/12/humanity-and-the-movement-of-god-leonard-sweet-frank-viola/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:00:08 +0000 Stephen Barkley http://stephenbarkley.com/?p=5255 Jesus is the space and time in which humanity gets caught up into the movement of God. —Leonard Sweet & Frank Viola, Jesus: A Theography, 14-15.

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