I enjoyed this short video and think it explains nicely why studying theology makes sense for everyone.
DugDownDeep_Carnahan.mov from Covenant Life Church on Vimeo.
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I love to talk about innovation and to be innovative in my field. Part of my work is also with the Bible and in theology. Admittedly it is less threatening to be innovative in Christian mission and research. But they all require creativity and innovation. For me, the reason why Bible study and theology can be so creative and innovative is because they touch on the lives of people and must be applied to every day life. It is true that in the mind of God a Bible passage has one clear interpretation. But I think it is equally true that the specific application of that interpretation can be creatively applied to each individual life. Innovation. Human life and living makes Bible application and theology a wonderland of innovation and creativity as we strive with all we are to understand the interpretation God has for His text. Here is a great video from Ted.com that shows how different we really are. Two minutes and a wow: Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different.
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This is a great video on the global statistics on Christianity (Evangelical) done by Intervarsity. Nicely done. It was presented at the Urbana conference. Here is where you can get more videos from the Urban2009 conference. I put evangelical in parenthesis since although they do not say specifically that they are talking about evangelicals the statistics do express that. I’m evangelical so this is no problem for me but it should be said. It is a great video and I wish we had more like it.
The State of Christianity from Urbana 09 on Vimeo.
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Jesus talked about identifying false prophets and about the foundations we have for our lives. Play the presentation below and think through the passage.
This gave me a huge laugh today and just had to share it with you. Apparently there is a Communist Museum in Prague. I have only been to Prague a couple of times and never really had the chance to go site seeing. But this looks like it might be fun.
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