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Christ is on the Cross: Imaginative Literature, the Gospel, and 'The Dream of the Rood' ![](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/51469/2023/c6a4e7da31.jpg\")
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How the History of the Resurrection stands on its Own F.E.E.T ![](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/51469/2023/0ca42c21e7.jpg\")
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Six Reasons Why We Struggle with the Doctrine of Predestination: jbennett.micro.blog
","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2023/03/01/six-reasons-why.html","date_published":"2023-03-01T04:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-03-01 04:00","date_timestamp":1677643200,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"15439253","content_html":"“But listening to preaching is something you do, and it is an act of worship when you listen with an eager mind and responsive heart. The reason it is an act of worship is that you are listening to God speak (through His Word). That’s why author and theologian J. I. Packer in The Preach... jbennett.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2022/12/25/but-listening-to.html","date_published":"2022-12-25T20:14:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-12-25 20:14","date_timestamp":1671999269,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"15361370","content_html":"For if the days of a person should be as many\nas all the days of the world from Adam to the end of the ages\nand he should sit and meditate on the holy Scriptures, he would not\ncomprehend all the force of the depth of the words.\nAphrahat, Demonstrations 22:26
\n","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2022/12/23/for-if-the.html","date_published":"2022-12-23T15:52:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-12-23 15:52","date_timestamp":1671810723,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"13150766","content_html":"To understand the message of Christ, you have to understand Israel. Christian interpretations of Scripture should begin with Jesus’ self-declaration that the Scriptures speak of him.\nGeneralized hermeneutics are not enough. They provide a safe guard from willy nilly postmodern interpr... jbennett.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2022/07/15/to-understand-the.html","date_published":"2022-07-15T20:55:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-07-15 20:55","date_timestamp":1657918500,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"13051755","content_html":"A new progressive religion exists with a liturgy of new, removed, redefined words. Described best as Word Porridge: a ground up, unintelligible hash; quick to grow cold. This is best spit out into the trash, it is not even fit for dogs.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2022/06/21/a-new-progressive.html","date_published":"2022-06-21T15:51:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-06-21 15:51","date_timestamp":1655826693,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"13051683","content_html":"What comes into our minds when we think about God is largely demonstrative of who we are and where we are. While all of life is theological, it is what God thinks - not what you think - that’s most important. Therefore, being a follower of Christ and sitting, walking, and standing with... jbennett.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2022/06/21/what-comes-into.html","date_published":"2022-06-21T15:31:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-06-21 15:31","date_timestamp":1655825463,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"12689738","content_html":"“It is not, I say, by any new revelation that the Spirit comforts. He does so by telling us old things over again; he brings a fresh lamp to manifest the treasures hidden in Scripture; he unlocks the strong chests in which the truth has long lain, and he points to secret chamber filled ... jbennett.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2022/04/10/it-is-not.html","date_published":"2022-04-10T18:47:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-04-10 18:47","date_timestamp":1649616420,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"12660919","content_html":"If we are to say that anyone is free to accept or reject God, then we carry with that an assumption that human beings have within them the ability to make such a choice and we further presume that some human beings will make that choice. I have no problem asserting that human beings hav... jbennett.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2022/04/02/if-we-are.html","date_published":"2022-04-02T18:06:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-04-02 18:06","date_timestamp":1648922807,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"12226933","content_html":"“Faith is not a conclusion you reach…it is a journey you live.”\nA.W. Tozer
\n","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2021/12/03/faith-is-not.html","date_published":"2021-12-03T12:28:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-12-03 12:28","date_timestamp":1638534509,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"12026902","content_html":"“Hans Urs von Balthasar maintained that the best evangelistic strategy is to capture people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good, and then lead them to the true.” — Robert Barron
\n","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2021/10/07/hans-urs-von.html","date_published":"2021-10-07T14:28:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-10-07 14:28","date_timestamp":1633616882,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"12026552","content_html":"Denial of Self- The Call of Discipleship ![](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://jbennett.micro.blog/uploads/2021/b0418e55f2.jpg\")
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What is Truth? ![](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://jbennett.micro.blog/uploads/2021/098192dada.jpg\")
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A classic Pelagian sentiment: God helps those who help themselves.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2021/10/04/a-classic-pelagian.html","date_published":"2021-10-05T01:05:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-10-05 01:05","date_timestamp":1633395946,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"12016268","content_html":"Nicene Creed ![](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://jbennett.micro.blog/uploads/2021/cda9a31f19.jpg\")
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The pridefulness and arrogance of the Positivists, going back to the Enlightenment but very apparent in today’s milieu of Scientism, is most apparent when they use their reductionistic epistemology to proclaim that their projects are untethered from Religion and Philosophy.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2021/09/30/the-pridefulness-and.html","date_published":"2021-09-30T12:58:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-09-30 12:58","date_timestamp":1633006721,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"11986171","content_html":"“Plato dreamed of a moral community that he was never able to actualize, but now this dream of a community had burst into reality. The center of this community was not, however, a philosopher from Athens. It was a Jewish teacher from Galilee whose works revealed him to be God enfleshed ... jbennett.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2021/09/26/plato-dreamed-of.html","date_published":"2021-09-26T17:25:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-09-26 17:25","date_timestamp":1632677141,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"11985525","content_html":"There are two views on human origins. One is high, the other is low. The high view has a poem that summarizes who human beings are:\n\nSo God created mankind in his own image, \nin the image of God he created them; \nmale and female he created them. \n\nThe low view has its own poem:\n\nOnce... jbennett.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2021/09/26/there-are-two.html","date_published":"2021-09-26T13:06:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-09-26 13:06","date_timestamp":1632661560,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"11983660","content_html":"There is a certain modern sentiment held by the cultural nominally religious, and even by the modern / postmodern Christian, that perceives of miracles as the idea that God intervenes in the course of natural events, and such events are unexplainable by scientific methodology or human r... jbennett.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2021/09/25/there-is-a.html","date_published":"2021-09-25T23:26:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-09-25 23:26","date_timestamp":1632612388,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"11973558","content_html":"Augustine declared, “If Plato and the rest of the philosophers … were to come to life again and find churches full and temples empty… they would say, ‘This is what we didn’t dare teach to the people!… With the change of a few words and sentiments, they would become Christians”
\n","summary":"","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/2021/09/23/augustine-declared-if.html","date_published":"2021-09-23T13:06:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Jamie Bennett","url":"https://jbennett.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F90729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jbennett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-09-23 13:06","date_timestamp":1632402390,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"11969499","content_html":"Happy Hobbit Day!
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The Failure of Frodo ![](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://jbennett.micro.blog/uploads/2021/07e6be8626.jpg\")
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