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

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Among the Woo People

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Just in time for back-to-school! Disclaimer: I grew up a block from a university campus; my dad was a university professor for ca. forty y...

Tozer for a Tuesday

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Spirituality does not lie in the length of your hair or the length of your beard. It does not lie in the style of your garment or the qualit...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Victory?

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Victory is certainly one of the goals in the Christian life, but whose definition of victory are we using? We strive to live the victorious ...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Tozer for a Wednesday

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Fools chose whom they wanted to marry, but they did not think of eternity when they did it. They chose what they wanted to do with their mon...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Do you believe it's possible?

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It's an erroneous idea that justification is an imparted robe of righteousness put over a dirty, filthy fellow who terribly needs a bath...
Friday, August 10, 2018

Yes!

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This guy "gets it" about that big river in South America that sells books (and lots of other things) online: Some may wonder, wh...
Thursday, August 09, 2018

Transformation

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The act of accepting Christ, if it is a true act, has an instant effect upon our entire moral life, and it changes the man from being a bad ...
Tuesday, August 07, 2018

Why tithe?

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If I were not a Christian, I Would not tithe. All of those button pushers that come along and try to show that if you tithe you’ll have mor...
Monday, August 06, 2018

Religious bores?

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To be as honest and realistic as possible, I will say that some people are religious bores. They have a way of introducing religion into the...
Friday, August 03, 2018

Bored?

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Backsliding resides in the heart, and these other things are only external aids to the devil. When a man is backslidden in heart, he tends t...
Thursday, August 02, 2018

If it feels good…

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People tend to follow what is easy and what goes the natural way. Outside of taxes and certain other duties forced upon us from the outside,...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Would you?

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If God never answered another prayer for me as long as I live, I still want God to know that I want to serve Him until I die. If He never di...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Thought for a Friday

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We are not called to always show a smile. Sometimes we are called to frown and rebuke with all long-suffering and doctrine. We must contend ...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

What does your God look like?

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Some Christians have taken all the justice, judgment and hatred of sin out of the nature of God and have nothing left but a soft god. Others...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Tozer for a Tuesday

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When truth has been revealed in the Word of God, our business is to find out What that truth is, and in all of our teaching conform to that ...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Do your own thing?

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What we must remember is that only he who takes orders from Jesus Christ belongs to Him. The evangelical church is in the process of comprom...
Friday, July 20, 2018

The church is an "also ran"

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Our literature is no different. If there is a best seller out in the world, you can be sure it will be imitated in the Church eventually. I...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Are you bored?

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Boredom with religion is conceivable, but being bored with God is not. Those who have encountered God and His mighty, awesome presence could...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Tozer again

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In the Early Church, everybody was part of the ministry team. Everybody was expected to go out into the world and preach the glorious redee...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Tozer for a Monday morning

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However, a new, updated translation of the Scripture is not the answer. It is amazing that i n a generation of Christians with more modern t...
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I'm a freelance editor/proofreader in Red Wing, MN along the Mississippi River.
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