There's a post on the Logos Blog about Logos in the Classroom. Actually it's a commercial for a 15 minute talk by Senior VP Dale Pritchett, which itself is basically a commercial aimed at Seminary professors to convince them to replace their single classroom textbooks with the full Logos Digital Library. If you have the 15 minutes you should listen. If you only have about 7, do a quick read of the PDF transcript.
I have two simple observations to make.

Upgrade the audio please

The audio is probably over compressed. It's either that or the audio is the result of several takes and a bad patch job. Dale comes into various sentences sounding completely different and it seems with different breathing patterns; almost as if they've taken two or more clips and sliced and diced them into one speech. The only reason I mention this is because I found it annoying to listen to. I'm tempted to say it's over compressed because I've experienced the same phenomena with other Logos media. Michael Heiser's excellent lecture "The concept of the Godhead in the Old Testament" was plagued in it's Camtasia format with horrible over compression that introduced all sorts of nasty audio artifacts into the speech. It's worth downloading the MP3 on that one instead of listening to the stream.

Yes, But...

I agree wholeheartedly with the principle message of Mr. Pritchett's speech. But I also see a problem

Originally posted at http://gephartr.blogspot.com

Warning: I speak in generic terms in this article, and with some small amount of sarcasm.

Originally posted on http://gephartr.blogspot.com

Lately I have been having some troubles with a friend at work. There have been communication and trust issues. These issues have been making both of us less and less happy at work, and had started leading towards some more vindictive actions that were making things even worse.

People of the earth, hear the word of the Lord - the Creator of heaven and earth.

I, the Lord, the God of Israel, will never abandon the poor and needy.

My Servant will bring justice to all who have been wronged. He will not stop until justice prevails throughout the earth. Thru my Servant, I will restore the people of Israel to me. My Servant will be a light to the gentiles and bring my salvation to all of the earth.

My Servant will be a symbol of my covenant with you, Israel. I have ransomed you, Jacob’s descendants, and you are mine. I chose you to know and believe in me; that I am the only God. No one can take anything from my hand, or undo what I have done. You, Israel, belong to me. I will blot out your sins for my sake, and will never recall them; I do this to honor my word, not because you deserve it. So, return to me for I have paid the price for your sins. Do not question what I have done or why; just repent and return to me.

Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith author: Rob Bell asin: 031026345X

Originally posted: April 05, 2007 @ http://gephartr.blogspot.com/

Well, this certainly was not what I expected to be writing about in part 2 of this discussion. But after a discussion with my dad today, I did a Google for "Rob Bell salvation." As it turns out, Rob Bell (a pastor in Grand Rapids, MI) is facing a lot of criticism for his views on salvation. I have listened to a few of his sermons lately and liked the topics of his sermons (sermons in general lately seem to be becoming fluffy).

I believe that the short description of salvation that I will go into will still involve at least 2-3 posts. Salvation typically is understood to mean our ability to go to heaven when we die. This meaning is looking forward to that which is to come far into the future (but we seem to look at as a now - see post On Purgatory for what our destination right now is).

As the millenia have passed, our understanding of Jesus has dimmed. This is in part due to just the passing of time, in part to our separation from Israel, and in part due to the political organization of the Church and the compromises that an organization must make.

“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow.

I am a new user to this site. My initial interest, as is probably obvious after a little looking is in PBB files for my new copy of Logos. But, after a little discussion with tcblack, I have been encouraged to repost some of my blogs into this site.