Sunday, October 30, 2022

Hymn for "the Lord's day"

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701 C. M. Safety in union JESUS, great Shepherd of the sheep To thee for help we fly: Thy little flock in safety keep, For O! the...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

Hymn for the day

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I have a small, saddlebag-sized Methodist hymnal from 1870 (the 1848 edition) that the local bookstore gave me a while back. I've been ...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Morning praise

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The other day I woke up with this hymn running through my mind: 1 When morning gilds the sky, our hearts awaking cry: May Jesus Christ ...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

James 1:5

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The word order in the Greek of James 1:5 has always fascinated me. It just doesn't come across very well in any English translation. But...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Jesus loves me, but…

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I follow Seedbed . Among other things, they have a daily devotional. Today's really spoke to me. Here's the relevant paragraph that...
Monday, October 24, 2022

A Warning

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Seedbed has been excerpting from Jack Deere’s new book . Today’s pointed out something I never noticed before in 1 Sam 18.10. The next day ...

Seventeen years!

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Saturday marked seventeen years of blogging, all on Blogger, all under "Idle musings of a bookseller." I've posted over six th...

Promise for some, trouble for others

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Those who pay close attention to the poor are truly happy!     The Lord rescues them during troubling times. 2 The Lord protects them and ...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Writing history

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Ancient history is a messy, uncertain enterprise. We cannot claim to be revealing the definitive, objective truth about the past. Rather, as...
Monday, October 10, 2022

Differences between CMS and SBLHS in multiple authors

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This is a reminder to myself more than anything, but you might find it helpful. This is for bibliographies, not notes! First, CMS (§14....

Am I Balaam?

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Recently, I was given the opportunity to copyedit a manuscript that they were willing to pay me almost double my normal rate. I heard the Lo...
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Thursday, October 06, 2022

Another reason to restrict hand guns

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I haven’t even mentioned the biggest example of how our inability to understand suicide costs lives: roughly 40,000 Americans commit suicide...
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Wednesday, October 05, 2022

No real conflict

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That means, however, that there are points of conflict between Christian faith , understood as a worldview, a metaphysical vision of realit...
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Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Oops!

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I forgot about the appendix. There are two good snippets there. Here's the first; the second will appear tomorrow. Enjoy! There is no n...
Monday, October 03, 2022

Free!

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In the biblical story, then, humans are damaged goods. Their nature is good because it was created by God in his own image and likeness with...
Sunday, October 02, 2022

Meritocracy in the university setting

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The Atlantic has an interesting article about the myth of meritocracy in the university setting. It got me to thinking. Read the article to...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Both and

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Most thoughtful Christians, reflecting on the biblical story, would say that God’s purpose for creation is both to display his glory and t...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Stop it!

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And God intends to liberate the world from this “bondage to decay,” which is evidence of God’s continuing care for creation. In the meantime...
Monday, September 26, 2022

But don't worship it!

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Ethically, then, the point of the creation story of Genesis and the entire Bible’s witness is the call to care for God is good creation whi...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Stop the exploitation!

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God’s assignment of the human to have dominion never hints at permission to exploit, let alone ruin, nature; it remains part of the “image a...