Many men aim high; Tom Farrell dares to be average. While his friends accumulate wedding rings, mortgages, and even, alarmingly, babies, Tom still lives alone in his rented apartment with nothing but condiments and alcohol in his refrigerator. He spends Saturday mornings watching cartoons and eating Cocoa Puffs out of an Empire Strikes Back bowl, and devotes the rest of the weekend to his other favorite hobbies: sports and girls. His credo, to think and act like a thirteen-year-old boy at all times, has worked well enough to land him a decent job writing headlines for the New York...
Many men aim high; Tom Farrell dares to be average. While his friends accumulate wedding rings, mortgages, and even, alarmingly, babies, Tom still ...
While evangelical Christians seem to agree that God guides his people, they are far from reaching a consensus on precisely how God guides. This book helpfully identifies and evaluates three evangelical positions on the subject of guidance and defends what is here called the modified wisdom view. In contrast to both the blueprint and wisdom views, which maintain, respectively, that God always and never gives special, personalized messages of guidance, the modified wisdom view argues that special guidance is possible, but not promised, for Christians today. Instead, God intends for Christians...
While evangelical Christians seem to agree that God guides his people, they are far from reaching a consensus on precisely how God guides. Thi...
Around the year 339 CE, Simeon bar Sabbae (the bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon on the Tigris) was killed by the Persian king Shapur II. Simeon was arrested for refusing to collect taxes from his flock, and he was beheaded for disobeying the king's order to worship the sun. The bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon was no minor figure. In fact, Simeon's martyr acts proclaim that he was the leader of the Christians of Persia and the protomartyr of Shapur's forty-year persecution. Curiously, however, two very different versions of Simeon's death exist. Each is presented here with an accompanying translation...
Around the year 339 CE, Simeon bar Sabbae (the bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon on the Tigris) was killed by the Persian king Shapur II. Simeon was arrest...
