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, March 29, 2013

May it be so

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Once it was I and not Christ; then it was I and Christ; perhaps now it is even Christ and I. But has it come yet to be Christ only, and not ...

Security

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It may be concluded that this period [Iron II] of an increased number of political crises that affected the ongoing existence of many househ...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Cry for help

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Help! Anybody know where the lint filter on a Whirlpool washing machine, model LSR6332KQ1 is? The parts list doesn't list one, but there...
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Cornbread

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I love cornbread. How in the world did a northern boy come to love cornbread so much? Simple; I spent 1.5 years in Missouri while in first g...

The human project

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Saw this on Peter Leithart's blog: Mocking God, killing righteous men – that is the human project. When a teacher comes with the dema...
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A higher calling

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You have brought to Him an enthusiasm of self-surrender that perhaps may disturb and distress the more prudent and moderate Christians aroun...

Open hands

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If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tig...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Yield, would ya?

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He is not asking thee, in thy poor weakness, to do it thyself; He only asks thee to yield thyself to Him, that He may work in thee to will a...

Facedown

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When Moses heard this, he fell facedown... But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, “O God, the God who gives breath to all living t...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

150 years ago

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The standard of practical holy living has been so low among Christians that any good degree of real devotedness of life and walk is looked u...

The more things change...

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The roles of women were of indisputable importance in family cults, but it must be stressed that women enacted these cults not only for them...
Monday, March 25, 2013

What a misnomer

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It seems strange that people, whose very name of Believers implies that their one chiefest characteristic is that they believe, should have ...

Popular religion

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...the dichotomous concept of official versus popular religion was not derived from ancient Near Eastern antiquity but, as noted by Vrijhof ...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Direct word?

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...Jewish tradition is also quite relaxed about whether the predominant idea is 'that prophecy is conditioned by the personality and the...

Thought for a Friday

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We are not preaching a state, but a walk. The highway of holiness is not a place, but a way. Sanctification is not a thing to be picked up a...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Thought for today

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Our one great motto is throughout, “We are nothing, Christ is all.” And always and everywhere we have started out to stand, and walk, and ov...
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Freedom of expression?

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But how and when one presents archaeological discoveries to the public is virtually unregulated. Who gets to tell the story about a site’s i...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Stating the obvious

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If Satan prefaced each temptation with the words, “I am Satan, your relentless enemy; I have come to make you sin,” I suppose we would hardl...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

But that is so backwards...

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True humility can bear to see its own utter weakness and foolishness revealed, because it never expected anything from itself, and knows tha...

Pretty straight forward, really

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If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; t...
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