“Jewish polemic against idolatry and similar Christian rejection of idolatry are directed not only at outsiders but also at insiders, at members of ‘our’ group who ‘set idols upon their hearts.’ And there is a recognition within the tradition that idolatry can assume forms that are not a
02.18.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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For Part 3 in this series, click here. In response to our rebellion against Him, the shape of God’s punishment fits the nature of our crime with ironic justice—namely, by allowing the consequences of our sin to play themselves out in the resulting moral decay and social breakdown we experi
01.30.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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For Part 2 in this series, click here. “For the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible
01.23.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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For part 1 in this series, click here. “For the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible
01.16.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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The beginning of a four-part series on Romans 1:18-32, this material comes out of some research and writing I've been doing recently. “A soul that turns away from You therefore lapses into sexual immorality when it seeks apart from You what it can never find in pure and serene form except by ret
01.9.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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My dear Wigglesworm, It's been sweltering down here in the Lower Regions - you would think you were in the high summer of Boston, but no, it's just hell. Anyhow, outbreaks of gonorrhea and florescent mosquitoes aside, things plod along as usual. But enough about the weather. I note with some c
06.1.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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“You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the
03.29.2010| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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