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the personal blog of jeremy jernigan

I was given a copy of Craig Gross' new book, Jesus Loves You: This I Know. Craig is the founder of xxxchurch.com and the author of the book The Gutter. The book has the look and feel of a Rob Bell book, but the title takes anyone who grew up in the Church down memory-lane (just try and read it without that song getting in your head).… Read More

I just finished Timothy Keller's book, The Reason for God. It was amazing! I give it a 5 out of 5. I would compare it to a modern day Read More

The idea of pacifism has been on my mind lately for two reasons: 1) with the elections I heard a lot of talk about the war in Iraq and how it is hypocritical for believers to support war and yet oppose abortion; 2) I've been reading a few authors lately that argue that Jesus was a pacifist and that we must adopt this stance as believers. So I've been reading the Bible lately with a filter for pacifism. In my reading this morning I came across three passages where it appears that Jesus is anything but a pacifist. This is not a researched list, this is simply three examples from four chapters that I read today.

Jesus tells a story… Read More

Thanks to Romi, I found a great website called Wordle. It takes text and represents it as a word cloud. It sizes each word according to how many times it appears in your text. You can customize it any number of ways. Here is what the Gospel of John looks like in one example: Read More

As many of you reading this will no doubt acknowledge, Brian McLaren is a name that always starts a conversation. Nonetheless, I have read his "A New Kind of Christian" trilogy and recently decided to read another one of his books called The Secret Message of Jesus. I am glad I did. This book was provocative from the title on and left me… Read More