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Health, Healing, and the Bible

Submitted by pastor joe on Mon, 08/25/2008 - 07:00.

Ask a simple question, and get a tangent filled complex answer ... that's how it works on TheSwim. This week, Joe and Ryan take a basic question about healing and a verse in Mark and turn it into 35 minutes on, among other things, how we got the Bible.

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The Son of David?

Wed, 08/13/2008 - 07:00 — pastor joe

While the Canaanite woman who approaches Jesus in Matthew 15 is a lowly outsider, she demonstrates a shockingly solid understanding of the Jewish Bible (the Christian Old Testament), and Jesus' role in the fulfillment of its promises.

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Dobson and Obama Duke it Out

Submitted by pastor joe on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 04:18.

Quote: "Earlier this week, Dobson used his popular Christian radio program to denounce a 2006 speech the Illinois Senator gave about the place of religion in public life. He took personal offense at the fact that Obama had referred to him by name in the same breath as Al Sharpton, using the two to illustrate the range of differences that exist within Christianity. But he also expressed outrage at Obama's assertion that individuals can be moral without being religious ..."

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Spider-Man and the Compartmentalized Life

Fri, 06/06/2008 - 07:00 — pastor ryan

Since childhood, I have always been fascinated with comics and superheroes. My first comics were given to my by a friend in 3rd Grade. It was a Spider-Man comic. From that fateful day, I have been a comic book collector, but it has only been recently that I have been able to make the connections of comics to faith. I think that this has become clear within the recent superhero movies.

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Prince Caspian

Land of Narnia

Fri, 05/23/2008 - 07:00 — Anonymous

Dr. Francis Rossow has spent years studying the writings of C.S. Lewis and teaches a class on the Gospel in Lewis' writings at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. In this edition of Semcast, Dr. Dale Meyer, President of Concordia Seminary, talks with Dr. Rossow about Lewis' Narnia series.

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Simple Invitation

The Author's Invitation

Thu, 05/22/2008 - 07:00 — pastor joe

These selections from Scripture have two commonalities. First, each of them, because they refer to an earth that doesn't move, has been used as an argument for a geocentric solar system.

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An Interesting Article

Submitted by pastor joe on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 07:00.

We received an interesting article this past week. While we're not sure what the author thought we would do with it, we figured we'd talk about it a bit and let it spark more discussion on interpretation and gender. We also unveil the new promote page.

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That Telephone Game

Thu, 04/24/2008 - 05:00 — pastor joe

"Well, you know, I was raised in the church and heard all the stories from the Bible, but as I got older, well, I just had trouble believing them. Anyway, how do we even know that those were the stories that were originally written down? You know that telephone game ..."

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Intelligent Interpretation

Thu, 04/10/2008 - 07:00 — pastor joe

I can still hear the angry and accusative words ringing in my ears. How I'd managed to stumble onto the conversation I'm not sure, but there I was, two people in the midst of a quarrel, one rather intense and the other, the one who was being attacked, surprisingly calm. What were those memorable words that I heard from the lips of the aggressor?

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