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		<title>Living with a Holy God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night my small group/bible study started our summer series.  This year we chose to take a look at what it means to &#8220;live like a Christian&#8221;.  This idea can be taken in two different directions: what are the internal/spiritual things that I should be doing and what are the external things that I should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonjabrice.com/?p=120</link>
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		<title>That Thing Called Theology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Tonja’s last post, she touched on the notion of studying theology, with the very good point that if we don’t study formal theology we tend to make up our own. Yes, we’ve all got a theology – even “I don’t believe in any of this nonsense” (my own position for 30+ years of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonjabrice.com/?p=111</link>
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		<title>studying vs reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of Jane&#8217;s last posts really got me to thinking about how we approach the Bible.  Certainly there is merit in simply reading the text &#8211; how else are we to become familiar with what is actually written.  But the ultimate journey as a Christian is transformation, and I would argue that simply reading the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonjabrice.com/?p=103</link>
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		<title>The Book in the book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Tonja mentioned the Chronicles of Narnia in her last post I was suddenly a teenager again &#8211; about 15 I think &#8211; lying on my bed re-reading one of the Narnia books for the nth time. And I suddenly realized who Aslan was. It was, literally, a hair-raising moment &#8211; these have happened a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonjabrice.com/?p=96</link>
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		<title>Reading the Gospels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have this perception that most people believe in God (i.e. aGod), but struggle with what to do with Jesus.  Jesus is certainly someone that deserves our attention, but is He really a stumbling block to faith?  I have a friend who thinks that &#8220;Christians&#8221; are too opinionated, too restrictive, too &#8220;goody-two-shoes&#8221;, and most certainly exclusivists.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonjabrice.com/?p=89</link>
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		<title>Gospel Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So here I am, parked in Mark, and I started wondering about the Gospels in general. Obviously they had different writers at different times, and were written with different emphases. A quick look at my handy-dandy Study Bible tells me that:

 Matthew presents Jesus as King;
Mark presents Jesus as Servant;
Luke presents Jesus as the Son of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonjabrice.com/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Why, Yes, Jane, I Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jane posted a rather good question last week, one to which I believe a lot of people struggle with.  Daily Bible Reading.
One of the best ways to become familiar with the Bible is to simply read it.  This is reading that is more for content (what does the text say?) than for meaning.  It is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonjabrice.com/?p=75</link>
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		<title>Do You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you read the Bible?
 
Let me put that another way. Do you – not as part of a Bible study group, not in church when the pastor tells you to, not just occasionally when “you need comfort” – actually crack open your Bible on a daily basis?
 
If you said No, I wouldn’t hold it against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonjabrice.com/?p=82</link>
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		<title>The task of interpretation, part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve already tackled the problems of genre and bible translations.  Now I would like to discuss a few final thoughts about how we are to read the bible.   These are some random thoughts, so for lack of better organization, I&#8217;ve just enumerated them here.

When reading a passage, be sure to know the passages before and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonjabrice.com/?p=45</link>
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		<title>The task of interpretation, part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every week in my women&#8217;s bible study there are at least 3 different translations being used.  Most of the time one of us reads a passage and then we all simply discuss.  There are times, however, that we struggle with the passage and then I suggest we read it in another translation.  When we do this, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonjabrice.com/?p=50</link>
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