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Song I Always Think about around Birthday Time
Don’t know why, but around birthday time when the weather starts to cool (a little) I always think about this song. I think I probably saw Better Than Ezra at some point when I was a teenager around my birthday (and just about every other season of the year). Anyway, I pulled out the acoustic…
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KJV Only Book Burning – My Perspective
HERE is a link to a video on Joel Watt’s blog about an upcoming book burning at a church in North Carolina. I wanted to give just one thought from my perspective. Someone needs to sneak in and spike the punch at this shindig. This is one of the reasons that God has given us…
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Refurbished Kindle Here and in Ideal Condition
Well, today is my birthday. And, a number of family members pooled in together to get me a Kindle 2. Of course, it was my job to do the ordering and I am stingy (I run a website focused on free resources for goodness sake!). So, I checked out the refurbished model of the Kindle,…
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Faith and Works – A Thought
Here is a thought that occurred to me today when reading the lectionary reading from Romans 2.1-11, which I know I inherited from elsewhere (perhaps the article a link to at the bottom, though I read it a very long time ago): It is one thing to say that the Bible teaches that justification is…
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Will We Eventually Have to Test Students for Performace Enhancing Drugs?
I picked up a copy of Scientific American this month (though I normally prefer Scientific American Mind). The cover said “Pills to Make you Smart: What Should you Know about Cognitive Enhancers,” so I couldn’t resist. The article talks about, among other things, how some would like to make drugs like methylphenidate (Ritalin and Concerta),…
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Romans 1.17 – As it is Written Where?
Today’s first reading is Romans 1.16-25. Verse 17 of this chapter is one of the most significant verses in the history of Christian theology. It reads as follows: For in it (the gospel) the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by…
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Replaced by Romans
Well, the daily Old Testament lectionary readings have been replaced by Romans. As if someone can understand Romans without having an understanding of the Old Testament. Oh well, back to randomness for a little while.
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The Valley of Jehoshaphat
In Joel 4.12 (or 3.2 dependent on your translation), there is a reference to the “Valley of Jehoshaphat.” Here’s the comment from the The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament (which if you didn’t know by now, I love): There is no valley with this name known in Israel from the Bible or from other…
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Free Lectures by Ronald Troxel
Dr. Ronald Troxel is Distinguished Lecturer (Biblical Languages and Literature) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This is one of the top, if not the top, Hebrew and Semitic Studies programs in the US. He has posted the syllabi for a number of his courses on his faculty page. In addition, he has links on…
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John Collins on the Day of the Lord
Today’s reading is from Joel 1 and 2. The theme of “the day of the Lord” plays prominently in the passage as well as in many other prophetic texts. I remembered reading quite a long time ago a helpful passage in Collins’ Introduction to the Hebrew Bible. It explains why all of the talk of…