Edward Fudge: An Alternative View on Hell

Several years back, I had the opportunity to meet and listen to Edward Fudge, an unusually bright student of Scripture with an uncanny ability to sift through vast piles of information and process it efficiently and accurately.

He was recently featured in a Christian Post interview, discussing his lifelong studies on the Scriptural background into the theology of hell.  With Rob Bell’s recent book having stimulated no shortage of fresh conversation along these lines, Fudge will no doubt add strong quality to the discussion.

Psalm 139 Videos

I’ve been in Psalm 139 for this Sunday’s upcoming lesson at church.  A most loved passage, there are numerous great videos based on this psalm.  Here are a few worthy of sharing that won’t get any airtime on Sunday.

God’s Word Wordled

Wordle is a slick little website that helps make “word clouds”.  It’s pretty slick to play with and can be used for pretty much anything you might dream up.

Someone decided they had some time on their hands, so they “wordled” all the key words of the New Testament.  It came out like this…

You know there’s always a “one-upper” out there, so someone else had to do the whole Bible.  Here you go…

Song of Songs

A segment of Sunday’s lesson will refer to Song of Songs.  Along that line, my time online led me to this…

Jonah in Pictures (11/28)

Tomorrow, I’m speaking about Jonah. We’re just skimming the whale part. The image we’ll grab is more about a plant, a worm, and a wind.

In my web-travels this week, I found this sweet series of artwork done by Robin Jensen.

Below, in fascinating picture form, I give you Jonah…

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This next one is getting featured in tomorrow’s lesson. It’s titled “Jonah: Hot and Bothered”.

And for this final piece, I feel the need to include the artist’s caption: “Mission accomplished. The worm goes home…”

Makes you wonder who the prophet in the story really was!