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Proverbs 31: Best Wishes from your Monster-in-Law
- May 4, 2015
- / Category Proverbs 31
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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“A capable wife who can find?” I confess that I don’t like Proverbs 31. To be more precise, I don’t like what Christian thinkers do with it. Proverbs 31 deals, for the most part, with an idealistic description of “a capable wife”. It has, from time immemorial, been used to make wives everywhere feel inadequate […]
Read MoreA Parable to Explain Jesus’ Claim to be “Son of God”
- May 2, 2015
- / Category Apologetics, John 5, Luke 1, Luke 3, Son of God
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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The Kingdom of God is like a Furniture Maker… When people think about how Jesus’ can claim to be the “Son of God”, they most often think in terms of the Virgin Birth: Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?” The angel said to her, “The Holy […]
Read MoreJohn 20:19-31 – The Honoured Guests and Their Servant Leaders
- April 19, 2015
- / Category Acts 4, Evangelism, Favouritism, John 20, Resurrection, Servant Leadership
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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Blessed are those who have not seen… Ever wonder why some people got a “bolt from the blue” encounter from God, and you didn’t? Jesus says that you are the one who is blessed, not them. How does that work…? I preached this message on Sunday, April 12 2015.
Read More“Zealot” – Reza Aslan’s Implausible Jesus Story
- April 14, 2015
- / Category 2 Corinthians 11, Book Review, Galatians 2, Judaiser, Resurrection, Sabbath
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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Not the Greatest Story Ever Told: Aslan agrees that the Gospels are “The Greatest Story Ever Told”, in his Author’s Note. His own version is… not. Aslan is a masterful storyteller (he should be, because he’s a professor of creative writing!), but the story he is telling has some serious problems. Aslan is not an historian, nor […]
Read MoreReflections on the Trip of a Lifetime: In Review
- March 31, 2015
- / Category Study Tour 2014
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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The Greece and Turkey Trip in Review After we returned, I wrote a little summary of the Study Tour for my Bible College’s magazine, Summa Supremo. I found it recently and thought I’d add here.
Read MoreWas Luther wrong about “Justification by Faith”?
- March 21, 2015
- / Category Covenant, Judaiser, Justification, Research, Romans 2, Romans 3, Romans 4, Royal Law, The Book of Romans
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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Justified by Faith Luther made axiomatic the claim that the believer is “Justified by Faith”. He was right, of course, but did he understand what that phrase meant to the author of it, and to the original audience?
Read MoreThe Beauty of Manhood
- February 17, 2015
- / Category Reflection on Ministry, Servant Leadership, Wisdom
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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Manhood is beautiful It feels odd, even risky, using those words, “Manhood is beautiful”, doesn’t it? Beauty has come to mean firstly something visual, and secondly something, or just about anything, other than manhood. But manhood is beautiful, and the realisation of that is profoundly important. Particularly for men.
Read MoreThe Fundamentals of Christianity, as encoded in the Writings of Moses
- February 15, 2015
- / Category Covenant, Election, Genesis 11, Genesis 12, Genesis 15, Genesis 17, Hidden, Judaiser, Justification, Research, Righteousness, Sabbath
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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The core of the Christian/Jewish polemic: What was Moses trying to say? At the very core of the ministry of Jesus, and the teachings of his apostles, is a fundamental claim about what Moses was saying in the first five books of the Bible. Either he was saying that the Covenant struck at Mt Sinai […]
Read More3 Words that will forever change the way you read the Gospel of John: Week 21
- February 5, 2015
- / Category 3 Words that will forever change the way you read the Gospel of John, John 21
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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Chapter 21 This is the final part in a 21-part series which traces “seeing” and “hearing”, and looks at how they relate to “believing”, through the Gospel of John. In Chapter 21
Read MoreBiblical Election: It’s not a Democracy
- January 26, 2015
- / Category Adoption, Election, John 15, Predestination, Romans 11, Total Depravity
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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Is God a Voter, and each of us a Politician? Since at least the Middle Ages, the Biblical concept called “Election” has been thought of in terms roughly equivalent to the democratic process. The democratic process uses the same word. But that’s not what it means in the Bible. In the Bible the word has […]
Read More3 Words that will forever change the way you read the Gospel of John: Week 20
- January 11, 2015
- / Category 3 Words that will forever change the way you read the Gospel of John, John 20
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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Chapter 20 This is part 20 of a 21-part series which traces “seeing” and “hearing”, and looks at how they relate to “believing”, through the Gospel of John. In Chapter 20 we start to draw the major themes together in some very dramatic ways. This chapter has a lot of “seeing” in it, which finally points […]
Read MoreTo God, There are no Dead Men – Luke 20:38
- January 2, 2015
- / Category From the Streets, Ministry, Reflection on Ministry, Resurrection
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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The Words of Life I met a mentally unstable, completely homeless, suicidal man. He had planned to commit suicide by drug overdose in just a few days’ time, on his birthday. He insisted that he had no reason to go on living. Many would probably look at his situation and agree.
Read More3 Words that will forever change the way you read the Gospel of John: Week 19
- / Category 3 Words that will forever change the way you read the Gospel of John, John 19
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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Chapter 19 This is part 19 of a 21-part series which traces “seeing” and “hearing”, and looks at how they relate to “believing”, through the Gospel of John. In Chapter 19, Jesus is beaten, crucified, and buried. In a chapter which begins, “Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged”, has in the middle, “So they […]
Read MoreIn The Mall… What’s it all about?
- December 28, 2014
- / Category Marketplace Evangelism, Ministry, Mission to the Marginalised
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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… and this just in: News from the Streets of Ipswich. Issue 15
- December 22, 2014
- / Category From the Streets
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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The Word on the Street Angel of Ipswich So many amazing and fascinating things go on in Ipswich, as I move around on the streets making friends with people. There are lots of stories I can’t share, for various reasons, but I find there are many that I can. I hope this series gives a […]
Read MoreBachelor of Theology: Done
- December 16, 2014
- / Category About the Author
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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… and this just in: News from the Streets of Ipswich. Issue 14
- December 15, 2014
- / Category From the Streets, Mission to the Marginalised
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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The Word on the Street Love is the Answer So many amazing and fascinating things go on in Ipswich, as I move around on the streets making friends with people. There are lots of stories I can’t share, for various reasons, but I find there are many that I can. I hope this series gives […]
Read MoreIf there’s any “Church life” in twenty years’ time… what will it look like?
- December 9, 2014
- / Category Baptism, Believer-Baptism, Body of Christ, Evangelism, Marketplace Christianity, Marketplace Evangelism, Ministry, Paedobaptism
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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The Church will not be the same in 2035. What will it be like? I have great confidence that the Church will be healthy and strong in 2035, because Jesus will still be Lord. I am under no illusion, however, that it will be the same as it is today. In fact, the way church life […]
Read MoreIt is more blessed to give than to receive… So give someone else a turn!
- November 25, 2014
- / Category Charity, Reflection on Ministry, The Human Connection
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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When giving becomes a selfish act When we place ourselves in the role of “giver”, say as in charitable act, we place another person in the role of “receiver”. We get to feel good about ourselves, and they get to suffer the indignity of accepting a handout. Who is more blessed? We are. Selfish… isn’t it?
Read MoreJesus! Why so Violent???
- November 13, 2014
- / Category Forgiveness, Judgement, Justification, Martyr, Matthew 21, Matthew 25, Resurrection, Sin, Spirit, Total Depravity
- / Posted By Kevin Bennett
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Did it really have to be so violent? A good friend of mine asked me this question, and on reflection, it’s a question that others most probably ask, too: “Would he still have been a saviour if he had died peacefully in bed? Why did Jesus’ death need to be so violent?”
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