by Dawson Jarrell | Sep 14, 2023 | Christian Ethics, Spiritual Gifts, Spiritual Growth
How to Deal with Manipulative Christians (who sometimes prophesy) Know your boundaries. Boundaries are guidelines, or limits that a person creates to identify for the person what are reasonable, safe and permissible ways for other people to behave around them. In...
by Dawson Jarrell | Sep 10, 2023 | Biblical studies, Christian Living
Demons, Sickness and the Second Temple In the cultural waters of Jesus and Paul, people already had an idea of the demonic. In Hellenistic Greek, “daimonia” were semi-divine beings with powers of various sorts who could be either good or evil. Basically, the same...
by Dawson Jarrell | Sep 2, 2023 | Biblical studies, Devotional, Discipleship, Spiritual Growth
Old Pictures & Renewed Vision Years ago, in my grandfather’s living room, there were two little black-and-white pictures of him that my grandmother hung with pride. Both were true of him and were taken around the same time. One was him in his garden leaning on a...
by Dawson Jarrell | Aug 8, 2023 | Christian Ethics, Ecclesiology
Two Kinds of Leadership In a blog on theology in the Gospel of Mark, renowned Greek professor and Pauline scholar David Allen Black wrote about a memory that still haunts him: “As a 10-year-old boy growing up in Hawaii, I clearly remember the day our pastor was...
by Dawson Jarrell | Jul 31, 2023 | Christian Ethics, Discipleship
Power and The Christian In fourth grade, I found a way to cut through the prickly bushes at the end of recess which allowed me to always be first at the water fountain. I was first to drink down the cool refreshing water that always quenched my thirst after an hour of...
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