The Spiritual Formation Process
I first became impressed with 2 Peter 1:3-15 shortly after leaving my engineering career at Honeywell in October of 1992 to enter into full-time ministry. In the fall of 1994 I joined the staff of what was to become Trinity Southwest University in Albuquerque, and in the 1995...
Testing the Factuality of the Conquest of Ai
The gamut of views concerning the conquest of Ai narrative in the 7th and 8th chapters of the Book of Joshua can be summarized as follows: the narrative is factual, having the weight of eye witness testimony; or, it is an aetiological legend, compiled long after the fact, either...
The Collapse of the Universe Into A Consciousness
In this study we will be discussing the contrasts that exist between the role of human consciousness as opposed to Scripture or the consciousness of the Creator. We will define these terms as we go through and study the text. This subject matter is very important today just as...
The Superinflected Personality – Part 3
Part Three 1. Jeremiah acts as a leverage over the temporal context. In Jeremiah 1:18, God says, “Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar and a bronze wall to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and the people...
The Superinflected Personality – Part 2
Part Two Now if Jeremiah is the antipode to all that other stuff that is against the revelation, what is his relationship to that other stuff? What is the posture that he occupies? There seem to be four parts to this posture: 1. The posture Jeremiah has to the...
The Superinflected Personality – Part 1
THE SUPER-INFLECTED PERSONALITY A STUDY OF THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH By J. Michael Strawn The eternal Word of God inflects the temporal side of reality. Objectivity is a myth. There is no such thing as objectivity. There are only inflected realities. If the revelation of the Lord inflects something...
The Briefing Book – Part 2
BRIEFING BOOK Part Two B J. Michael Strawn (Tape Transcription) To delve into what we will repeatedly refer to as a Biblical Lexicon, we have to learn a vocabulary. Unless we shake up our language, we don’t ever learn anything. So we have to piece together a usable, workable,...
The Briefing Book – Part 1
THE BRIEFING BOOK by J. Michael Strawn (Part Two A) This is a tape transcription. To obtain a copy of The Briefing Book, contact Dr. Strawn for copying and postage costs.) What we want to take a look at in this segment has to do with the “Two Funnels”. ...
Scriptural Lensing
(Transcribed) A lens, like in a set of binoculars or even our eyeglasses, squeezes whatever you’re looking at into the shape of the lenses. Because our eyesight is poor, or looking through a set of binoculars, when we look at Sandia Crest is going to squeeze it to the...
The Incredible Strange Thing
By J. Michael Strawn (Transcribed from tape) The title of this study is built on the word translated in the New International Version, a STRANGE THING, in the book of Acts, chapter 26 and verse 8, where Paul is making his defense before Agrippa. He says in that particular...