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What's in a Version? Bible translations explained!
To the Hebrews: A Participatory Study Guide Topical study of the book of Hebrews
Revelation: A Participatory Study Guide A new approach to studying Revelation
Identifying Your Gifts and Service A Spirit-led program for churches to use in identifying and starting to use the gifts of the whole body.
Not Ashamed of the Gospel: Confessions of a Liberal Charismatic My personal testimony and theology
I Want to Pray! Basic understanding of prayer, written with Rev. Perry Dalton
Identifying Your Gifts and Service: Small Group Edition
Disciples: Jesus With Us
When People Speak for God
Tales from Jevlir: Oddballs My first work of ficiton in print

Note on the word Energion

The name Energion originally was the name of a role playing game system I designed with some help from my friends. Though I am no longer making use of the system, I have begun to make the old manuals and some related software available on the internet. Look at the Energion Role-Playing Game System.

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Seasons of the Church Year
I grew up in a Christian group that did not follow the Christian liturgical calendar. There were many arguments presented for this, including the pagan backgrounds of some holidays. I’m not going to discuss that issue except to say that I care very little about the background of the day. What I care about [...]
What Disastrous Situation
… could possibly make Donald Trump a “great” candidate for president? It’s one of the worst comments on our political system that anyone even pretends to take him seriously. Related Posts: I Hope He is Right Free Speech and Savings Possible Why I Dislike Both Major Parties A Good Politician Emotions and Candidates Powered by Contextual Related Posts
Marks of a Unified Church
Walter Brueggemann suggests how we might avoid getting tangled up on secondary issues: (HT: Allan R. Bevere) Related Posts: Jesus vs. Religion – Really? Seventh-Day Adventist vs Methodist on Family Guy The Problem with Stories When Robots Chat What if Church Was Like Powered by Contextual Related Posts
This Does NOT Represent Family Values
In a blog on the American Family Association web site, Bryan Fischer has named Jessica Ahlquist, the High School student in Rhode Island who was plaintiff in a case against a prayer banner in her school, to his “American Association of Religious Bigots.” In doing so he calls her a “little atheist bully” and [...]
Dutch Sheets and Dominionism
I have previously written about the term “dominionism,” one which I don’t find very helpful as a label for a political position. So I was very interested to hear Dutch Sheets, one of those called (by some) a dominionist, make reference to the term. I was invited as a Christian leader to hear Dutch [...]
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Energion Publications

Participatory Bible Study Blog

The Earliest Gospel of Mark Has NOT Been Found
I’m trying to correct some headlines. OK, my headline is wrong also, intentionally so. Here’s what happened: Dan Wallace said in a debate that a fragment of Mark has been found which one paleographer dated to the 1st century. There … Continue reading →
Would This Be Bibliolatry?
Red Letter Christians has a post titled “Is This Any Way to Treat a Bible?” which tells how a high school teacher, on seeing a student’s heavily marked Bible, held it up to the class and asked that question. The … Continue reading →
Is Cessationism Another Gospel?
A guest contributor to The Jesus Creed asks this question. He comes at it from the angle of just how far such a teaching would be from what is implied in the gospels, from which our definition of “Gospel” should … Continue reading →
The Way Sunday School Class at FUMC Pensacola
My wife Jody and I have started a new Sunday School class at our home church, First United Methodist Church in Pensacola. The first meeting was the third Sunday in January this year. I’ve been meaning to post something here … Continue reading →
It’s right for God to slaughter women and children anytime he pleases
The Christian Post has a portion of an interview with John Piper in response to the question: Why was it right for God to slaughter women and children in the Old Testament? How can that ever be right? And the … Continue reading →
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Jody's Devotionals

Ash Wednesday
And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’: The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by … Continue reading →
There Is A Famine
Hear this! The days are coming— this is the declaration of the Lord GOD— when I will send a famine through the land: not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the … Continue reading →
A Covenant With God
O LORD, I give my life to you. I trust in you, my God! Do not let me be disgraced, or let my enemies rejoice in my defeat. No one who trusts in you will ever be disgraced, but disgrace … Continue reading →
Open the Eyes of My Heart
A lot of Samaritans in that town put their faith in Jesus because the woman had said, “This man told me everything I have ever done.” They came and asked him to stay in their town, and he stayed on … Continue reading →
First in My Life
What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have observed and have touched with our hands, concerning the Word of life— that life was revealed, and we have seen it … Continue reading →
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Moderate Christian Blogroll

New Sites Added to Blogroll
I’ve just added three new sites to the blogroll: Attempts at Honesty Ministry of the Heart of Christ Top 10 Most Influential Christians
Added to the Blogroll
We’ve added six new sites to the blogroll: Alma saudavel Joyful Idealist Forgotten Voices Lessons of a Dad Herald Sun Faith Works The Sweeney Family Check out these sites.
Inspiks Best Websites to Promote Christian Blogs
Inspiks lists the Moderate Christian Blogroll amongst it’s list of places to promote your Christian blog. With the cleanup and other work on the roll, I hope to make this truly a good place to promote your blog. Keep watching!
Blogroll Cleanup and Update
I have just gone through the blogroll and removed blogs that are inactive (more than 6 months since the last post), or which have been deleted. I updated a number of URLs as well. If your blog was removed, and … Continue reading →
The Blogroll is Still Alive!
Recent appearances to the contrary, the Moderate Christian Blogroll and Aggregator are still active. I have been extremely busy with my business at Energion Publications, and so have gotten behind. I’m in the process of updating the backlog of new … Continue reading →
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Energion.com Book Blog

Book Note: The Well Tempered Clavicle
I am only a moderately intense follower of the Xanth novels, but this one looked like fun (I usually get around to them eventually), so I checked it out. The humor is still there. There are too many puns for me, though I do enjoy many of them, and this one was on the topic [...]
Book Note: Turning to God
I asked my pastor for a good book on the basics of Christian conversion and he handed me William Barclay’s little book Turning to God. It’s a small book, with just 103 pages of reasonable size text. It’s not complex. The vocabulary is straightforward. I wouldn’t recommend it for speed reading, but you don’t need [...]
Book: Snuff (Terry Pratchett)
How can I say enough good things about Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books? The fact is, I can’t. If you have any liking for fantasy and humor, you need to get involved in this series. The most recent one (at least that I’ve gotten my hands on) is Snuff, and the only new thing I’d have [...]
Book: Fatal Error
J. A. Jance is one of my favorites in the mystery/thriller category, and Fatal Error is up to her best standard. I enjoyed every minute of the book. I didn’t feel like speed reading through anything, and I never felt that she’d left out part of the story, which is a rare thing for me. [...]
Book: Bones of Empire
William C. Dietz is one of my second-tier authors, i.e. he’s not in my top five, but I’ll pretty regularly pick up one of his books. In Bones of Empire he continues the story previously told in At Empire’s Edge, and I actually found this book more engaging than the other. We get some politics, [...]
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Energion.com Podcast

The Phone Call I Should Have Made
Do you take time to thank those who serve?
Witnessing
A transcript is available.
God Does Things Backwards
4Joseph went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David, called Bethlehem, because he was David’s descendant, 5to be included in the census with Mary, to whom he was engaged to be married. She was pregnant. 6While they were there she was due to deliver the baby. 7She gave birth to her [...]
Humorous Humility
Scriptures: Too numerous to mention!
A Spiritual Tragedy
Greg May asks if we’re really read to serve people and become involved with them. Scripture: Leviticus 19:18, Romans 12: 3, 10
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Neufeld Computer Services

TweetDeck for Ubuntu
I’ve been missing TweetDeck on my main office system, which uses Ubuntu Linux, ever since Twitter bought it and eliminated Adobe Air. I was suspicious of the stability of Air, but I liked TweetDeck, and it worked. I’m embarrassed to … Continue reading →
Internet Security – A View from North of the Border
Cory Doctorow is a very well known science fiction writer, journalist, and a commentator on technology and social issues. He is interviewed in about the first 15 minutes of the Canadian (CBC) program Spark 170. I think what he’s saying … Continue reading →
Twitter Logon Problem – Continuous Over Capacity
For several days I had a problem logging into my Twitter account. I wondered at first whether I had been banned for some reason, but I couldn’t think of any reason for that. Then I checked that I could see … Continue reading →
Switching to Linux
This guess post at Greg Laden’s blog gives one man’s experience switching to Linux. It’s a repost from 2009, so the version numbers are a bit different (Ubuntu is at 11.10 now), but it still gives a pretty good idea … Continue reading →
The Crash of Air France Flight 447 and You
Popular Mechanics has a tremendously interesting article based on a recent book that provided transcripts of the black box recordings of this flight as it went down over the Atlantic Ocean. For someone who is not a pilot, but has … Continue reading →
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