May 24, 2023
Texts: 1 Corinthians 15:21-28; 50-57; 2 Peter 2:11-13 Days 75-77 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days. The voice from the throne announced, “Behold, I am making all things new” (Revelation 21:5). Ultimately and finally, God makes all things new through resurrection. Though Jesus was seemingly defeated by the powers in his death, God vindicated […]
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Theodrama | Tagged: Anthropology, Christology, Creation, Eschatology, New Creation, New Earth, New Heaven, New Heaven and New Earth, Resurrection |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 26, 2023
Texts: Acts 6:7; 4:23-31; 12:24; Revelation 5:9-13 Days 65-67 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days. When God created the cosmos, God invested in humanity a particular vocation: fill the earth, subdue the chaos, and shepherd (rule) the creation (Genesis 1:28). As participants in the new creation, the people of God extend this human vocation […]
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Theodrama | Tagged: Creation, Discipleship, Discipling, Ecology, Great Commission, Growth, Mission, New Creation, Powers, Subduing the Powers |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
December 26, 2022
In January, 2021, Bammel Road Church of Christ in Houston, TX, asked me to share my understanding of 1 Timothy 2:11-12 with them. This is the ZOOM video for January 31, 2021. This presentation suggests that Paul is addressing a confused situation in Ephesus where some deceived women were influencing the whole church, and consequently […]
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Biblical Texts, Theology | Tagged: 1 Timothy 2:12, 1 Timothy 2:8-15, Creation, Gender, Men, Ordination, Pastor, Preaching, Teaching, Women |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
November 9, 2022
Texts: Genesis 12:1-3, 7a; Exodus 6:2-8; Exodus 19:3-6. Days 14-16 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days. Who is Israel, and what is her purpose? It is a new humanity in a new Eden to continue and further the mission of God in the world. Following the collapse of the world into violent imperialism and […]
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Biblical Texts, Theodrama | Tagged: Abrahamic Promise, Church, Covenant, Creation, Exodus, Exodus 19:3-8, Exodus 6:3-8, Genesis 12:1-3, Israel, Promise, Sinai |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
October 11, 2022
Days 5-8 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days Text: Genesis 1:26-28 Who are we as human beings? What is our identity, and what is our responsibility and function on this earth? The long history of spirituality, which is evident in today’s Western culture, has included a search for the authentic self. It seems we […]
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Biblical Texts, Theodrama, Theology | Tagged: Creation, Ecology, Fill the Earth, Genesis 1:26-28, Identity, Image of God, Rule the Earth, Subdue the Earth, Vocation |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
September 29, 2022
Days 2-4 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days Texts: John 17:24-26; Isaiah 66:1-2; Genesis 1:1-2, 31 Why did God create the world? I think it is for the same reason God sent the Son into the world. And it is this: to include humanity in the communion of God’s own love. That perhaps offers […]
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Theodrama, Theology | Tagged: Communion, Cosmos, Creation, Dynamic, Incomplete, Love, Perfect, Very Good |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 19, 2021
For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing, provided they continue in faith and love and holiness, with modesty. If the reasons Paul gives for 1 Timothy 2:11-12 are difficult to understand and subject to […]
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Biblical Texts, Hermeneutics, Uncategorized | Tagged: 1 Timothy 2:8-15, Creation, Ecclesiology, Fall, Gender, Women |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks