Sitemap - 2023 - Aspire to be an Elder

Honoring Your Father and Mother - 23

There is Something Right About Staying - 22

Noah Stayed But Everyone Left - 21

God Wanted Abram To Be Abraham - 20

Monolithic Man - 19

The Universal Language - 18

All One Language Again? - 17

Languages and Ethnicity - 16

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Ethnic Benefits and Realities - 15

We Are Not Cold Atoms - 14

Does God Really Want Elders To Stay? - 13

Ethnicity - 12

God Divides People - 11

The Tower of Babel and the Division of the People - 10

Crickets

Taking a Breath

Book Review: Presbyterianism Defended Against the Exclusive Claims of Prelacy as Urged by Romanists and Tractarians, by Thomas Jackson Crawford

From One Man We Get All Peoples - 09

Fathers, Cain and Seth - 08

The Elders Began as Fathers - 07

Moses Respected the Elders - 06

Moses Stayed - 05

The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back - 04

Spend time with Other Members - 03

You've Got to Get to Know a Person - 02

Stayers and Drifters - 01

Book Review: The New Testament Elder, by Thomas Witherow

Interlude Number Two

God Is Greater Than Our Hearts - 41

We Don't Always Want To Interpret Correctly - 40

Why Is Respecting God's Word So Important? - 39

Author's Intention - 38

The Third Curveball Catches The Edge - 37

Another curveball - 36

Three Other Interpretive Curveballs - 35

Setting Right Those Other Texts - 34

Paul's Got Reasons - 33

What Are You Saying Paul Said? - 32

Paul, Writing for His Time or Ours? - 31

Scripture Decides What is Normative - 30

What Still Counts? - 29

Final Point of the Radmacher Lesson - 28

The Lesson - 27

Getting Schooled by a Theologian - 26

You Can't Just Read a Verse or Two - 24 & 25

Imaginative Interpretation - 23

Symbolism and Apocalyptic Language - 21 & 22

I Take the Bible Literally! - 19 & 20

Figures of Speech - 17 & 18

Men Wrote the Scriptures - 14, 15 & 16

You are the Reader, Not the Writer - 11, 12 & 13

Rules are to Guide You - 08, 09 & 10

Hermeneutics - 06 & 07

Does It Really Say That? - 03, 04 & 05

Born Again in the Same World, but it's Different - 01 & 02

Interlude

Learn Roman Numerals - 29

The Original Languages? - 28

Books on Subjects - 26 & 27

Books, Digital Books, and Online Reading - 23, 24 & 25

Commentaries and Older Books - 21 & 22

Your Books are Tools - 18, 19 & 20

Build a Library - 15, 16 & 17

Jesus Gives Us Technology - 14

When Can You Get Your Reading Done? - 12 & 13

Read from Different Viewpoints - 10 & 11

Reading as You Grow - 08 & 09

Don't Focus on Becoming an Elder - 06 & 07

I Don't Read but I Intend to Lead - 04 & 05

Read in Order to Love Properly - 03

The Bible and Books - 02

Leaders Must Be Readers - 01