Baptist Exposition

Bible lessons from the Visualized Bible and expositional lessons and sermons.

About

You Think Too Much… is the personal blog of Jeff Voegtlin. This is an ongoing project that hopefully is helpful. There are a variety of posts related to some of the many things I’m involved in at my church. Some posts are related to college classes. Others are about instrumental music…Continue reading “About”

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The Cost of Our Salvation

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The Currency of Heaven

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The Value of a Soul

Genesis 15 – Thoughts From My Devotions

After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. (Genesis 15:1) I…

Verifying Repentance

Here's something else I think is important about my post with no title. The verses there tell us that if a brother commits a tresspass against us seven times in…

Christian Vocation

“…however, we are not allowed to think that one Christian vocation is more spiritual than another. All work, if it is legitimate and offered to God, is sacred. We know no distinction…

Either? Faith or Intellect

“This false either/or—either faith or intellect—is…not an exaggeration contrived to make a point. It is at the root of every juxtaposition of the two meant to highlight the importance of religion…

A Scholarly Shame

“But because the Bible is also a human book, written by human authors in human language in a wide variety of literary genres—narrative, poetry, epic, epistle, love song, proverb, apocalyptic,…

2nd Rate Academic Subject?

“While I would not want to seem to be advocating a “Bible as Literature” approach, wherein the Bible is viewed as no more than one religious text among many, I…

I Don't Want to Think

“We require that someone whose religious style we agree with, someone who is safe, give us simple answers to complicated questions. It is better, we think, if we do not have…

No Future Scandal

“The point is simply that we in Christian schools must do everything in our power to ensure that in future generations there is no scandal of the evangelical mind, that…

Not the Greatest Danger

“Which is to say that the greatest danger to faith does not come from too much thought, too much research, from being too academic. If it did, the best thinkers would…

Wide Christian Reading

“That may require reading more widely in great Christian literature than we ever have before. But I do not mean Christian end-time thrillers or romance novels. Those serve only to…

Squeezing Bad Scholarship

“Squeezing lessons out of any subject is bad scholarship. Moreover, it defeats its own purpose, because the subject will teach us its lessons most effectively when we pay attention most…

Faulty Research

“To ask a student to support an experiment on photosynthesis by looking up verses in a concordance that refer to the sun or to leaves is not only poor pedagogy;…

Intellectual Faith

“Moreover, there are just as many stories of young people who have thrown over their Christianity, not because they substituted a more intellectual faith for a less intellectual one, but…

Academic Quality = Spiritual Decline??

“In their zeal to become prestigious, or known for their academic quality, many schools have moved away from their passionately Christian first principles. This is a matter of historical fact…

Powerful Scriptures

“Does not Scripture, clearly presented, have its own power to produce “application”? The Church already labors under a surfeit of sloppy exegesis, inept hermeneutic and fiery exhortation to rush out…