*A short piece I wrote on 1 Corinthians 7 appeared in the latest print journal of the Ichthus. For anyone interested in a more detailed (but still nowhere close to exhaustive) interpretation of this controversial passage, a significantly expanded version is offered below: That the moral visio
02.27.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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This week, my Bible study and I looked at thankfulness in the Bible. Looking at the prayers of faithful people in the Scriptures isn’t a bad way of teaching yourself how to pray—and when once you look, the whole book is littered with prayer after prayer of thankfulness, moment after moment of re
12.2.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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"Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Ch
10.19.2010| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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Lately I’ve been reading through the book of Ezekiel. There are parts of this book that are often quoted because they are so readily applicable to our twenty-first century lives. God’s promise in chapter 34 to be Israel’s shepherd comes to mind—we know that Christians, too, have been made pa
08.12.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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Last week, my mom invited my uncle over for dinner so that he and I could continue our four-part debate on God, Christ, and the Bible. One of the more frustrating aspects of our debate was that he would conflate many issues. We would start out discussing free will and foreknowledge, and suddenly my
07.27.2010| The Fish Tank | Jordan Monge
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This morning I sat down to write my blog post and realized that it had been a long time since I had really thought about God. To be more precise, it had been just about a week—since I wrote my last post, in fact. This concerned me. It’s not very comfortable to look up from your daily affairs and
06.24.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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When the evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land. When he saw that they were straining at the oars against an adverse wind, he came towards them early in the morning, walking on the sea. He intended to pass them by. But when they saw him walking on the sea, they thoug
04.17.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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