Please find below a list of Scrip­tures to con­tem­plate regard­ing who we are in Christ.  These can be under­stand­ably inspir­ing while also unpre­dictably encour­ag­ing.  Some believ­ers report sea­sons when they read these every day.

Who Am I? Scrip­tures on Chris­t­ian Identity

Who Am I? Scrip­tures on Chris­t­ian Identity

There are some won­der­ful resources from folks work­ing to artic­u­late the many rea­sons Chris­tians believe what they believe.  Check out the var­i­ous web­sites men­tioned here.

A Rea­son­able Faith: Top 25 Apolo­get­ics Web­sites (click to read)

Read­ings avail­able for audi­to­rium class:  “The Chris­t­ian Rev­o­lu­tion:  A His­tory of Christ’s Trans­for­ma­tion of Human­ity”  under Cat­e­gories of Con­tents Sec­tion to the right …  Start from the bot­tom 2nd page and work up to get all material.

FH News 19 Decem­ber Joseph

O Wis­dom, com­ing forth from the mouth of the

Most High, reach­ing from one end to the other might­ily, and sweetly order­ing all things:

Come and teach us the way of prudence.

I can­not think unless I have been thought, 
Nor can I speak unless I have been spo­ken. 
I can­not teach except as I am taught, 
Or break the bread except as I am bro­ken. 
O Mind behind the mind through which I seek, 
O Light within the light by which I see,

O Word beneath the words with which I speak,

O found­ing, unfound Wis­dom, find­ing me,

O sound­ing Song whose depth is sound­ing me,

O Mem­ory of time, remind­ing me,

My Ground of Being, always ground­ing me,

My Maker’s Bound­ing Line, defin­ing me, 
Come, hid­den Wis­dom, come with all you bring, 
Come to me now, dis­guised as everything.

Here is a med­i­ta­tion on the birth of the Lord Jesus by Lance.  The Haiku form of poetry uses sev­en­teen sound units in three phrases of 5–7-5 sounds respec­tively.  (Unable to ver­ify artist of the delight­ful water­color used as back­ground, and have enjoyed it sep­a­rately for a time.)

Main­stream media pro­motes sev­eral books that give a cyn­i­cal answer to the ques­tion of how we got the Bible.  Highly promi­nent is author and scholar Bart Ehrman who wrote Mis­quot­ing Jesus. His con­cern in ask­ing how we got the Bible is cer­tainly good.  How­ever, it is dif­fi­cult to get a com­plete, and there­fore ade­quate pic­ture from what has become the typ­i­cal main­stream dis­cus­sion.  For a well-rounded and very acces­si­ble dis­cus­sion of Bib­li­cal Reli­a­bil­ity, I have linked to  Greg Koukl’s lat­est 10 page issue of “Solid Ground.”  Koukl’s arti­cle is well writ­ten, up to date, and worth the time.  It is on his Stand To Rea­son website.

Solid Ground

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