I’m taking up a challenge to post seven links in seven days. But not just any links. Specific ones:
- My first post
- The post I enjoyed writing the most
- A post which had a great discussion
- A post on someone else’s blog that I wish I’d written
- My most helpful post
- A post with a title that I am proud of
- A post that I wish more people had read
So today is post number 1, my first post. I think I’ve come a long way since then in some technical skills, and even the purpose of my blog has morphed a bit. Changes aside, Anwoth is still home to my thoughts, my quirks and my hero, Samuel Rutherford. Check it out: Welcome to Anwoth.
This is the third in a series of seven posts in seven days. Here’s the list:
- My first post
- The post I enjoyed writing the most
- A post which had a great discussion
- A post on someone else’s blog that I wish I’d written
- My most helpful post
- A post with a title that I am proud of
- A post that I wish more people had read
I’m modifying this one a bit to be the most-discussed post. It’s also one of the most visited posts on this site. It’s my initial interview with Dr. Ed Blum, General Editor for the HCSB. This was a turning point for my blog. This was the post that made Anwoth a place largely about the HCSB. The interview is pretty thorough, and the discussions are very interesting as well.
This is the second in a series of seven posts in seven days. I’ll give you the list again:
- My first post
- The post I enjoyed writing the most
- A post which had a great discussion
- A post on someone else’s blog that I wish I’d written
- My most helpful post
- A post with a title that I am proud of
- A post that I wish more people had read
Today’s post is one that I enjoyed writing the most. It’s a satire of sorts that I wrote during the whole brouhaha over Bruce Waltke’s resignation from RTS. I had a lot of fun, and I thought it was pretty clever. Here it is: Copernicus’ Heliocentricity a Dangerous Threat to Inerrancy.
This was a hard decision, so here’s the runner up in this category: John Piper and Justin Taylor Are Stealing My Content. You need to see this one just for the picture of Piper and Taylor!
This is the fourth in a series of seven posts in seven days. I’ll give you the list again:
- My first post
- The post I enjoyed writing the most
- A post which had a great discussion
- A post on someone else’s blog that I wish I’d written
- My most helpful post
- A post with a title that I am proud of
- A post that I wish more people had read
One of the things that really bugs me, especially given my fundamentalist background, is the ridiculous way that we Christians divide over stuff. It’s not enough for us to declare even the “fundamentals” of Christianity. We have to argue over what those fundamentals are. And even in some cases where we agree on many (most? all?) of the fundamentals, we still draw our boundary lines even tighter in order to exclude other Christians.
Quite frankly, it angers me. So with that being said, I wish I had written this post.
This is the fifth in a series of seven posts in seven days. Here they are:
- My first post
- The post I enjoyed writing the most
- A post which had a great discussion
- A post on someone else’s blog that I wish I’d written
- My most helpful post
- A post with a title that I am proud of
- A post that I wish more people had read
It’s tough to find a post to classify as “my most helpful post.” For one, I don’t know what’s helped other people and what hasn’t. Plus, it’s hard to evaluate what’s been “helpful” since that term itself needs to be defined.
So I’ve taken this approach: Which post has helped me the most? I’ve decided on one with a crazy title, “The Baptist Presbyterian Hermeneutical Baptism Spiral,” because it was the post where I was able to articulate and clarify in my own mind some thoughts about baptism in a way that was immensely helpful…to me. I’m coming to some conclusions about baptism that I had not reached when I wrote the post, but this post definitely helped me clarify where I was heading.
The “hermeneutical spiral” is the idea that we approach Scripture with a set of presuppositions that colors the way we understand the text. Then as we understand the text better our presuppositions are shaped and molded. And so we approach the text again with slightly tweaked (or perhaps completely revolutionized) presuppositions. We find that our understanding of the text has changed in some ways and so have, therefore, our presuppositions.
It’s a never-ending spiral, and it is discussed at length in Grant Osborne’s book, The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation
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In this post I apply that concept to baptism in some ways that helped me understand some things better.
