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

Friday, October 29, 2010

Final thoughts

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This is the final extract from The Indwelling Life of Christ: All of Him in All of Me : Who was running the Church in the book of Acts? Not...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Serving tea?

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"When you are sent and you go, you are put where Christ puts you, and nothing will frighten you. "That is why these early believer...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Live the life

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"The true Christian life can be explained only in terms of Jesus Christ, and if your life as a Christian can still be explained in term...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Slave labor

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Another reason I don't shop at Wal-mart. Read the whole thing here : The 2500 workers at the Anowara Apparels factory in Bangladesh spe...
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More Christ in you

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"You must act on what you have come to know and believe before it will ever become real in your experience, before you realize by pers...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Honest question

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Seriously, this is an honest question: Why is socialism considered a dirty word? <idle musing> I've heard people spit it out of th...
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Christ in you

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To many pragmatic minds, this total repudiation of self-effort is abhorrent. The thought of it can result in a hostility borne of self-justi...
Friday, October 22, 2010

You've got to be kidding

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No, they aren't! As you know, I do a bit of cheese making. Consequently, one of the RSS feeds I subscribe to is a cheese making supply...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

No problem!

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"You may be thinking, “if such a life is totally of Him, though Him, and to Him, then where do I come in?” You do not. That is just wh...

5 years

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Yep, five years ago today I started blogging; 1829 posts later, I'm still here. A lot of the people I was interacting with aren't bl...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Get out of the way!

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Suppose you were digging a hole, and I offered to give you a rest. How would I do it? While you continued shoveling, I could call down a sug...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Thought for a Tuesday

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"The flesh within you has never ceased to love sin, and never will. Given half a chance, it will always manifest its corruption and dep...
Monday, October 18, 2010

Thought for a Monday

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"If you are not yet prepared to do as you are told, no matter how weak or foolish it will make you look, then whatever you believe abou...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Salvation

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"Salvation is so much more than a change of destination from hell to heaven! The true spiritual content of our gospel is not just heave...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

LIberty or slavery?

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"There is a lie that Satan continues to propagate today with signal success in the hearts of countless people. It is the notion that by...

cute

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I know I'm biased, but I think I've got cute grandkids. Last night, I was talking to our son, Ryan, on the phone and he told me he w...
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Fun contest

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Doug Mangum took issue with a newly announced AOAT title, The Exchange of Goods and Services in Pre-Sargonic Lagash , calling it the most ...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

By our own strength

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"The flesh will sing in the choir, teach Sunday school, preside at a deacons' meeting, preach from the pulpit, organize an evangeli...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

New 10-day sale at Eisenbrauns

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With a hearty hat tip to Tommy Wasserman for the choice of books, I managed to create a new 10-day sale. Here's the skinny from BookN...

Thought for today

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The Holy Spirit always exposes the flesh for what it is, and there is nothing more infuriating to the carnally minded Christian than when th...
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I'm a freelance editor/proofreader in Red Wing, MN along the Mississippi River.
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