Category Archives: Bible

Ephesians with Wright halfway through

Posted on 2010/02/13 by ngilmour

For those who use my Sunday school resources, I’ve now got two versions of a lesson sequence on Ephesians done, one that boogie woogies through the book in three weeks and one that goes half a chapter at a time.  … Continue reading →

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One more thing…

Posted on 2010/01/30 by ngilmour

While I’m moving my more speculative posts over to the Christian Humanist Blog, I will continue to update my own Sunday School Resources and Teen Ministry pages here.  I invite anyone who would like to look at them to use … Continue reading →

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Reading Together: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 24 January 2010

Posted on 2010/01/18 by ngilmour

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 24 January 2010 Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 Psalm 19 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a Luke 4:14-21 This week’s readings are a lovely array of meta-Scriptures: a Gospel reading about Jesus reading the Scriptures, a Pauline passage about … Continue reading →

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To Domesticate or Not to Domesticate?: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 17 January 2010

Posted on 2010/01/11 by ngilmour

Vanderbilt’s Lectionary Page for 17 January 2010 Isaiah 62:1-5 Psalm 36:5-10 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 John 2:1-11 I’ve read some twentieth-century feminist Biblical scholarship, and some of it is quite helpful to keep me mindful of my own assumptions and sometimes … Continue reading →

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Water that Destroys, Water that Demonstrates, Water that Dampens: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 10 January 2010

Posted on 2010/01/05 by ngilmour

I don’t know that I’ll do this every week, but one thing that I’m going to try to do more this year is write about the Bible, and I figure one way to do that is to write about the … Continue reading →

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I stand tagged: The Bible in 5 Lines

Posted on 2009/12/04 by ngilmour

Tripp Fuller tagged me with this meme, so here’s my attempt at it (in just a few minutes so that I can get back to a conference paper): Written Proclaim faithfully Call to worship Grace given, encompassing all God creates, … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts on the Tests of Christ

Posted on 2009/10/21 by ngilmour

It’s been a week and a few days now since I taught this story (from early chapters of Matthew, Mark, and Luke) to our Sunday school class at Athens Christian Church, but I’m still thinking about the enormous interpretive challenge … Continue reading →

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How to Take Mark 6 on its Own Terms and Stay (small-o) orthodox

Posted on 2009/09/24 by ngilmour

I’ve written here before that I enjoy the Theos-Seekers, our younger-adult Sunday school class at Athens Christian Church, and that hasn’t changed. ?Two weeks ago, while reading Phillip Yancey’s The Jesus I Never Knew as a class, we read one … Continue reading →

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A Couple Philosophical Questions for the (more recent) Jesus Manifesto

Posted on 2009/06/26 by ngilmour

Before I begin, I should be clear about what I’m writing about.? I do enjoy reading the left-leaning The Jesus Manifesto website, but that’s not what I’m talking about here.? (Incidentally, that site has done its own interrogation of Sweet … Continue reading →

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I realized something in Sunday school yesterday…

Posted on 2009/03/23 by ngilmour

Ruth is about three-quarters barking mad. Let me back up. ?Ruth, the eighth book of the Old Testament, is our text for the next several weeks of Sunday school. ?I’ve taught Ruth in churches and at UGA, and one of … Continue reading →

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Back to Egypt

Posted on 2009/02/22 by ngilmour

When Mary and I returned from Indiana and West Virginia at the beginning of January, we started a new series on Exodus for the teens at church, and we decided fairly early on in the planning process that we’d do … Continue reading →

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The Bible and Satire

Posted on 2009/02/10 by ngilmour

Today we did Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, a lovely poem that I’d never read before planning the lesson for this class.? It’s a poem that at the same time gets 2 Samuel and ventures outside of its bounds freely to … Continue reading →

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Idolatry, Opression, and Negation of Negation

Posted on 2008/11/20 by ngilmour

I was thinking about negation as a philosophical move this morning, and I started to think about negation-of-negation as it might relate to reading Hebrew prophetic texts.? Algebraically, of course, a negation of a negation is the same as a … Continue reading →

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Jesus of the War Zone

Posted on 2008/08/25 by ngilmour

Although the inspiration to write this post came while reading The Shaping of Things to Come by Hirsch and Frost, the outlines of the ideas have been brewing in my head for some time.? Hirsch and Frost are not the … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Sermon: Isaiah 56

Posted on 2008/08/09 by ngilmour

I’m filling the pulpit for two Sundays this month, and I’ve got the outline down for 8/17.? Actually, to be honest, the lectionary text from the Old Testament (I always preach the lectionary–it keeps me from returning to my own … Continue reading →

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The 700th Anniversary of Left Behind’s Forebear

Posted on 2008/08/04 by ngilmour

It was set to be a hit from the time letters hit paper. (No movable type yet, so it wouldn’t hit the presses for a couple centuries.) It had glimpses into Hell and Heaven, the doom of the Pope, and … Continue reading →

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Jonah Sunday School

Posted on 2008/07/19 by ngilmour

I just got done with some handouts for the next two Sundays at Athens Christian.? The Westfalls are moving into their new house, and Jan asked me to take a couple weeks while they do so, and the results are … Continue reading →

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On the Unknown Limits

Posted on 2008/07/08 by ngilmour

I’ve been reading Thomas Aquinas for the last few days, and I continue to be impressed.? I read his Compendium for comps, and now, the first leg of the Summa completed, I still think that his philosophy is without match … Continue reading →

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Another Sermon Preached

Posted on 2008/05/05 by ngilmour

I’ve now preached as many sermons in a month and a half as I did at Bogart Christian in two years.? That’s neither to say that Bogart was stingy nor that Athens Christian is needy; Marv’s car wreck and the … Continue reading →

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Ephesians Lessons Available

Posted on 2008/05/03 by ngilmour

I just posted the third and final part of my Sunday school series on Ephesians.? It’s under the “Sunday School” tab above.? As with all my Sunday school materials, feel free to look at, use, and modify the lessons, but … Continue reading →

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