Andrew Doerksen

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  • Three notes from the flood

    1) God called clean and unclean animals onto the ark. What constituted as clean or unclean in early Genesis? The law didn't exist yet. Since God took the unclean onto the ark as well, should we resist…

    Created 4 months ago

    Genesis 6:5 (NIV)

  • How I read Genesis 1 & 2

    Reading the first two chapters of Genesis back to back highlights the impossibility of taking these passages as comprehensive scientific accounts. If one is reading just the first chapter of Genesis,…

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 2:5 (NIV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-12-08

  • Easy Paul...

    This is commentary about the first four books of first Timothy. I don't remember being so offended by this book. A handful of times in this book I find myself wishing Paul would tone down his directives.…

    Created 6 months ago

    1 Timothy 1:1 (NIV)

  • Spiritual Maturity

    This is a passage that can be taken to speak into global justice. The gift that Paul is speaking of is for the Jerusalem church, a church stricken by poverty. From the vantage point of the Corinthians,…

    Created 7 months ago

    2 Corinthians 8:13 (NIV), 2 Corinthians 8:14 (NIV), 2 Corinthians 8:15 (NIV)

  • Words without knowledge

    "Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?" This is God's first response after long discourses by Job and his friends. And alot of those discourses, especially the most recent one by Job,…

    Created 7 months ago

    Job 38:2 (NIV)

  • Job 37:24

    Job 37:24 (NIV)
    Therefore, people revere him, for does he not have regard for all the wise in heart?"

    Created 7 months ago

  • Watering & Planting vs. Growing

    Paul has the maturity to be able to credit God while God used natural and human agents. Paul was able to say, "So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes…

    Created 7 months ago

    1 Corinthians 3:7 (NIV)

  • Job 33:14

    Job 33:14 (NIV)
    For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2011-11-08

  • 1 Corinthians 1:7

    1 Corinthians 1:7 (NIV)
    Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Gal 4,5

    A few chapters about the freedom of Christ.  Its all very good news, but I find myself on the other end of the spectrum. I don't feel much religious obligation of any kind really. So much so sometimes…

    Created 7 months ago

    Galatians 4:1 (KJV)

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2011-11-03