U. S. military destroys soldier’s Bibles in Afghanistan
May 8, 2009
Fred Jackson, One News Now (HT: Christian Headlines)
Letting My Hair Down [27 Christ-Centered Couplets]
May 1, 2009
I hate poetry. It’s blue-collar work. Like a bricklayer, poets grind out an existence one word at a time.
Words become sentences, sentences become stanzas, stanzas become poems…over a period of days. Weeks. Even months.
One fourteen-line sonnet can demand fourteen hours to craft. And then you are not even sure it’s any good.
The process is long, brutal and nasty.
That’s why I like the couplet. You’re only dealing with two lines of five to six words each. Unless you’re writing thirty-nine couplets…like I did with the Old Testament last week.
Or twenty-seven couplets…like I did this week.
I paint a painful picture. Tongue-in-cheek, of course, because I enjoy the final product with a smug self-satisfaction.
So, I hope you experience the same kind of satisfaction after reading these couplets…without the work, of course. Let me know what you think. And have a great Friday.
Matthew
The meek revolutionist surpassed Moses—
Unheard, he redeemed the broken masses.
Mark
Soon I must be isolated, sifted—
Follow me, to death, that none would be wasted.
Luke
God mingled with women, children, heathen
Through Christ-man, who sought the lost with passion.
The iBible!
April 29, 2009
(HT: Todd Rhoades)
‘In the beginning, which occurred near the start, there was nothing but God, darkness, and some gas’
April 27, 2009
The story of the Bible, as told by children (Reformation Theology)
‘Stuff Christians Like #521. Judging people that use the table of contents in their Bible.’
April 14, 2009
‘I prefer the King James Version’
April 9, 2009
Note to self
April 9, 2009
By Joe Thorn
Dear Self,
Like Israel, you tend to forget the most basic things. Important things. You need constant reminders. So, find ways to remind yourself about these things that matter. If you aren’t intentionally setting the truth before yourself you will forget.
You’ll forget what you were (a slave to sin, a child of wrath, a dead man walking).
You’ll forget what you are (a disciple of Christ, a child of God, a new creation).
You’ll forget what you are made for (the glory of God, the good of my neighbors).
You’ll forget what you’re sent to do (make Christ known, make disciples).
You’ll forget it all.
And when you forget these things - you get into trouble. So erect something like “memorial stones” that will remind you of all these things (and more). Get back to personal journaling, preach these things to yourself, share them with your kids, and help others to see and savor them wherever you can.
‘[Study Bibles] usually are an inadequate replacement for actual study and discipleship’
March 25, 2009
Frank Turk posts ‘A beef about study bibles‘
Generation to Generation
March 20, 2009
By Knox Chamblin
In December 2008, I turned seventy-three. Invited by Tabletalk to address younger generations “on matters pertinent to the faith,” I thought of Psalm 71, the prayer of an elderly man. Says verse 18: “So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.” I seek to do so now.
Wisdom: “O God, from my youth you have taught me” (Ps. 71:17a). “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom” (90:12). For an ancient Hebrew, heart had rational, emotional, and volitional dimensions. So one way to love God with all one’s heart was to love him with all one’s mind (Matt. 22:37). I urge you, whatever your calling, to commit yourself to the serious study of the Holy Scriptures. When I taught at Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS), reading an assigned exposition sometimes left me wondering: “If this student believes the Bible is God’s infallible Word, why has he expended so little effort to mine its treasures?” While writing a commentary on the gospel of Matthew in recent years, I was acutely aware of the need for both utter dependence on God and unrelenting discipline: these are like the two wings of an aircraft, both essential for flight (Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace, chap. 8).
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Facebook cause provides Bibles for prisoners
March 16, 2009
Bibles For Prisoners on Facebook
Britney Spears’ father orders her to read Bible one hour each day
March 16, 2009
‘Why did God inspire this?’: Making the most of Leviticus
February 24, 2009
Julian Freeman (HT: Tim Challies)
How Archaelogy Illuminates the Bible (1st lecture)
February 24, 2009
Story on the series by Aaron J. Leichman in The Christian Post
New Bible for urban youth ‘disses’ target audience with patronizing language
February 23, 2009
Nick Norelli reviews the Soul Infinity New Testament
Soul Infinity NT
The Bible’s Everest
February 23, 2009
By David Mathis
The last 12 verses of Romans 8 (verses 28-39) are the biblical Himalayas, and Romans 8:32 is Mount Everest.
[God] did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Stand in awe of this verse. Step back and view the whole range, and then focus your gaze on the highest peak. And then reorient your thinking about life’s hardest times and deepest pains.
The reason why Romans 8:32 is so breathtakingly amazing is that it combines all the most massive promises of God for his people with the (seemingly) simple reality of the gospel. In Romans 8:32, the apostle Paul takes God’s most far-reaching, hope-giving, life-changing promises and supports them the central Christian message of the gospel.
