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Join My Mini-Book-Launch Team!

January 8, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Get free stuff… Have some fun… Learn with me about the publishing process… And most importantly, Help my new book help God’s people! I’ve been hinting about my new book for a while now. Very soon it is going to launch! I am really excited about this. The book is Love Your Bible: Finding Your Way to the Presence […]

Filed Under: Bible Tagged With: Book Launch, Book Launch Team, Lectio divina, Love Your Bible

Advent 4–Reading Isaiah (cont.)

December 23, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Reading great chunks of Scripture can bring surprising gifts. Don’t get me wrong: I’m also a big believer in spending time with very small passages. I’m passionate about the value of classical lectio divina for instance. But I’ve been reading through the sixty-six chapters of Isaiah during Advent (Here are weeks 1, 2, and 3). Taking this book […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year Tagged With: Isaiah, Servant songs

Gratitude, Priority One (Heidelberg Catechism Q94)

December 19, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Advent is a season of preparation for Christ’s coming. What better time for a little reflection on faith and life. If we were Puritans or Catholics in the Jesuit tradition we might call it “self-examination.” Me, I’m just a 21st Century Presbyterian with a penchant for blogging on the Heidelberg Catechism–that 16th century summary of Biblical […]

Filed Under: Bible, Heidelberg Catechism, Theology, Uncategorized Tagged With: First Commandment, Gratitude, No other gods

Advent 3–Reading Isaiah (cont.)

December 16, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Reading through Isaiah in Advent provides some breathtaking moments. Yes, there is also some thick slogging: any number of passages are filled with ancient history and unfamiliar names. But scattered throughout the book’s 66 chapters are some of the most beautiful, inspiring, hope-filled moments in all of Scripture. Some of them are familiar as can be. Handel’s […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year Tagged With: Advent 3, Context, God's Character, God's intention, hope, Third week of Advent

Advent 2–Reading Isaiah (cont.)

December 11, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Funny things happen when reading Isaiah if (a) you are a Christian and (b) you have a theological education in a mainline Protestant tradition. (a) As a Christian, there is a whole lot of Isaiah, like the series of oracles to the nations (see chapters 13 and following), that just seems like hard slogging. The references […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year, Theology Tagged With: Advent, Christian use of the Old Testament, Emmanuel, God with us, Immanuel, Isaiah, Isaiah 7:14, Typology

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