Tag Archives: scripture

These are a few of my favorite quotes

7/4/2008 – 5:42 am

For your Maker is your husband,
the Lord of hosts is his name.
(Isaiah 54:5)
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 6:23)
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge [...]

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A children’s lesson in textual criticism

6/5/2008 – 9:28 am

I was caught off guard yesterday and found that I needed to prepare the kids’ lesson for our Wednesday night bible study. I came up with something that seemed to be helpful, and I thought I’d share it.
I cut out 32 pieces of paper, each about 3 inches by 3 inches. On one [...]

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Graphing Ephesians 1

3/21/2008 – 10:24 am

Here is a look at one of my attempts to prepare a sermon for this weekend. This has been discarded, by the way.

Click on the picture to get the whole diagram; the above is just the detail around the “Christ” box.
Someday, if I can find some software that will generate a relationship diagram like [...]

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Bible meme

3/12/2008 – 4:17 pm

I just saw this over at Jeremy Pierce’s weblog. I hope he doesn’t mind if I crash the party.
1. What translation of the Bible do you like best?
I like the ESV best, the NASB(95) as a close second, and the TNIV third.
2. Old or New Testament?
God forbid I’m a closet heretical Marcionite (although that [...]

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Fast Apologetics

3/2/2008 – 4:40 pm

James White put a short (3-3/4 minute) but powerful presentation up on YouTube. He shares three commonly misused verses, one each by Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Oneness Pentecostals and how those Scriptures should be properly understood. Yet another awesome resource from Dr. White.

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This “messy human business”

1/29/2008 – 10:30 am

In response to a friend asking about New Testament canon issues:
The “messy human business” (I like that phrase, it’s a good description of what people think) of the Canon is a fairly recent development in the history of unbelief, and it takes advantage of people’s lack of historical training and gullibility. (I’m going to [...]

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Spirit and Scripture

9/30/2007 – 4:40 pm

I preached the first of two sermons leading up to Reformation Day today. It’s sort of a “we need a new Reformation, and it’s the same as the old Reformation” theme, but I wasn’t obvious about it, I don’t think.
It moves fast, and I would encourage people who care to look up the passages [...]

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This blog’s like the Legend of Zelda series

9/26/2007 – 9:50 am

I mean, there’s just one link, followed by another, followed by another…
OK, bad joke. But obviously all actual content here is getting swallowed by occasional links and brief commentary. Why is that?
I’ll let my co-conspirators tell their own tale, if they like. In my own case, TIWIARN (This Is Where I Am [...]

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Bruce Metzger, 1914-2007

2/15/2007 – 1:00 am

Bruce Metzger, whose books God used to convince me that He used the fallible church as a means to the end of delivering an inerrant Scripture, has gone to his reward. Thanks, Dr. Metzger. He was one important link in the chain Christ used to draw me out of the cult I was [...]

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An email to a Catholic mother

3/11/2006 – 11:44 pm

Hi Mrs. XXXXX,
Oh, I’m so sorry about that. I really did not mean to come off belligerent or argumentative or anything like that. And I really hope you didn’t and don’t take it that way. If I did come off that way, though, I do want to apologize to you, and ask for your forgiveness, [...]

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