Friday, December 30, 2022

Magical thinking

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One of the king’s primary responsibilities was to defeat and contain these threatening beings, thus maintaining the stability of the world. ...

Divine hope

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513 C. M. The garner of God. COME, thou omniscient Son of man,    Display thy sifting power;    Come, with thy Spirit’s winn’wing fan    A...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

For the love of…

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Sir. 31:5    Whoever loves gold won’t be declared just,       and whoever pursues profits       will be led astray by them. 6 Many ha...

To what end salvation?

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I return my reader to one of the key questions of this book: What is the goal of salvation? For too long, scholars and laymen alike have myo...

A hymn for the new year

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1128 C. M. For a blessing on the truth. O GOD, by whom the seed is given,    By whom the harvest blest;    Whose word, like manna shower’d...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Participation in Christ

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God’s children will receive this glory in full when their own redemption and adoption is complete, but they also are currently glorified , ...

Sanctified Knowledge

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1011 1st P.M 6 lines 8s. Sanctified knowledge. COME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost    To whom we for our children cry    The good desir...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Tozer for a Tuesday

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[Speaking of those who force an interpretation and call it "rightly dividing the word of truth," he says} Rightly dividing the Wor...
Monday, December 26, 2022

Participation in Christ

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God’s children are tasked with the role of participating in God’s restoration process in creation through the practice of prayer. In this wa...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

Hymn for a Christmas Eve

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493                                     L. M. There remaineth a rest for the people of God . COME, O thou greater than our heart,    A...

Thought for the day

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3 Rich people inflict injury,    but then act as if they’re the ones    who have been wronged;      the poor suffer injury,      bu...
Friday, December 23, 2022

Just because

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The weather right now: That's warmer than yesterday??!! I didn't look yesterday when I was out shoveling (we got about 6 inches of...

Hymn to God's holiness

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100 L. M. Holiness HOLY as thou, O Lord, is none    Thy holiness is all thine own;    A drop of that unbounded sea    Is ours,—a dro...

For whom do we groan?

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I propose that nothing in the text warrants reading τὸ γὰρ τί προσευξώμεθα καθὸ δεῖ οὐκ οἴδαμεν [We don’t know what we should pray] in Roman...
Thursday, December 22, 2022

Coworkers!

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I suggest that, though God’s children have not yet fully received their adoption as sons and thus are not yet in full possession of the inhe...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

He shall glorify…

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OK, I've been listening to Handel's Messiah , what can I say! Anyway, here's today's excerpt from Conformed to the Image of ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Tozer Tuesday

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As soon as we accept the doctrine or the idea that the Bible is a book of theological toys to be played with by tender saintlings, we have m...
Monday, December 19, 2022

An Advent hymn

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118 C. M. Design and object of His advent. HARK, the glad sound! the Saviour comes,——    The Saviour, promised long;    Let every he...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Numismatic abbreviations

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The last two books I've edited have had numismatic references, and therefore abbreviations. I'm not a numismatics guy—far from it! S...
Friday, December 16, 2022

But what does the text say?

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Contrary to Schreiner, Witherington, Moo, and others who maintain this guaranteed future reality, there is no indication within the context ...