Idle musings of a bookseller

Idle musings by a once again bookseller, always bibliophile, current copyeditor and proofreader. Complete with ramblings about biblical studies, the ancient Near East, bicycling, gardening, or anything else I am reading (or experiencing). All more or less live from Red Wing, MN

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

identity theft

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It's a devilish trick to say, “put off, put off, put off,” when you really don't know who you are. You think that you're a duali...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Is it real?

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In the realm of appearances, there is constant evidence of good and evil, both outside and inside us. If we judge by appearances, we arrive ...

That fourth day in July is approaching

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And civil religion is about to take over the U.S. But, before you allow it to rule you, as well, consider ths: It isn’t government which giv...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Our harvest

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Nope, not the garden—although it is doing very well!—but the harvest of our own self-effort: What we produce on our own is filthy rags. We p...
Friday, June 25, 2010

We are one

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We are one spirit with God. We function as one. We are not absorbed into the Lord, however. There is an I and there is a He, but we are join...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

The point of reference

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As long as our own humanity is our point of reference, we don't know we died and we can't know union. We can't know it. I didn...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Which tree are you eating from?

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"To put it another way, we are operationally still eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, rather than from the Tree of...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The really good news

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"What's good news to us now isn't just that He died for us, though that is good news. It isn't just that He's with us...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

Whose life?

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After I got my sins forgiven, my question was always, “How do you live the life?” What I discovered is this: you don't. Because you can...
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And now for something completely different

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The other day, while reading one of the many book related e-mails I receive, I ran across a summary of a book outside my normal reading. It ...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Learn from me

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When Jesus said, “Learn from Me,” He meant to learn from Him how He lived. And how did He live? He lived out of the Father. He didn't ha...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The bread of life

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I'm on the road today, on my way to the ATLA conference, so just a pair of quotations from The Rest of the Gospel: When the partial Gos...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Foolish Galatians

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Once a person becomes a believer, the law actually hinders the fulfillment of God's purpose for our lives: that He might express His lif...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Do we really believe?

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I was speaking in Alabama once to a group of 77 people. I asked them, “How many of you believe the Bible?” All 77 hands went up. I read Roma...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Doublecrossed

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This aspect of the cross, that we died with Him , is what I call the Doublecross. There are two sides of the cross. The first is the blood ...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

What are you living?

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We continue on our jaunt through The Rest of the Gospel: When the partial Gospel has worn you out with a selection of quotations: Everyone...
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

What do you depend on?

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Ministry can be an external. A lady who ran a retreat center told me that a young minister came through and met an older minister there. The...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

The righteousness of God

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Resuming our interrupted selection of snippets from The Rest of the Gospel: When the partial Gospel has worn you out , here's today...

Huh?

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I walked into the break room this morning, and noticed something I hadn't before. I'm not sure if you can see this in the picture, b...
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Varia

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Just a collection of various things found on my wanderings around the web... Lawson Stone is blogging again. Here's a portion of today...
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