Monday, February 05, 2024

From the preface of Torrance's Incarnation

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For Torrance, theology is personal knowledge of God in which mind and heart together are equally involved. God is personal, or ‘personalisin...

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds

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347 Holy Cross. C. M. 1 How sweet the name of Jesus sounds    In a believer's ear!    It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,    And ...
Sunday, February 04, 2024

Who or what is forming you?

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On Center for Action and Contemplation blog, there's snippet from a 2008 book, revised in 2022: If we’re honest, culture forms us mu...

Jesus, Thou Joy of loving hearts

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345 Rimington. L. M. 1. Jesus, Thou Joy of loving hearts,    Thou Fount of life, Thou Light of men,    From the best bliss that earth impar...
Saturday, February 03, 2024

O Thou who camest from above

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344 Eisenach. L. M. 1 O Thou who camest from above    The pure celestial fire to impart    Kindle a flame of sacred love    On the mean alt...
Friday, February 02, 2024

The continuing importance of linguistics for translation

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It is sometimes argued that improved modern translations are making linguistic study less necessary than it used to be. Quite the contrary i...

My God, my strength, my hope

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343 Richmond. S. M. D. 1 My God, my strength, my hope,    On Thee I cast my care,    With humble confidence look up,    And know Thou hear’...
Thursday, February 01, 2024

Context is king!

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The communication of meaning in Hebrew was not determined at all by what the words meant in Arabic, and was not primarily determined by what...

Dear Lord and Father of mankind

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342 Rest (Elton). 8 6. 8. 8. 6. 1. Dear Lord and Father of mankind,    Forgive our foolish ways;    Reclothe us in our rightful mind,    In...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

You still need to define it!

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Now there is a tendency among American historical linguists, one to which Semitists are by no means immune, to assume that ordinary German w...

'Mid all the traffic of the ways

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341 St. Agnes. C. M. 1 ’Mid all the traffic of the ways,    Turmoils without, within,    Make in my heart a quiet place,    And come and dw...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Why linguistics?

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In biblical studies, as in many other areas of learning, language analysis has rarely thrived as an end in itself. For the most part, lingui...

Tozer for Tuesday and the Holy Spirit (or lack of!)

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So the Holy Spirit gets into the benediction and verse three of hymn number nine. Further than that, the Holy Spirit is not necessary to the...

Jesus, Lover of my soul

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338 Martyn. (first tune) 7. 7. 7. 7. D       Hollingside. (second tune)       Aberystwyth. (third tune) 1. Jesus, lover of my soul,    let ...
Monday, January 29, 2024

Sacralizing the secular

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(Although some historians represent early Protestantism as eliminating the sacred, it is perhaps more accurate to suggest that the movement ...

Savior, like a shepherd lead us

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337 Bradbury. 8. 7. 8. 7. D. 1 Savior, like a shepherd lead us,    Much we need Thy tender care;    In Thy pleasant pastures feed us,    Fo...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Jesus, still lead on

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336 Seelenbrautigam. 5. 5. 8. 8. 5. 5. 1. Jesus, still lead on,    till our rest be won,    And, although the way be cheerless,    We will ...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Jesus, I live to Thee

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335 Lake Enon. S. M. 1 Jesus, I live to Thee,    The loveliest and best;    My life in Thee, Thy life in me,    In Thy blest love I rest. ...
Friday, January 26, 2024

The Trinity

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The doctrine of the Trinity can be regarded as the outcome of a process of sustained and critical reflection on the pattern of divine activit...

My Lord how full of sweet content

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334 Hamburg. L. M. 1. My Lord, how full of sweet content;    I pass my years of banishment!    Where’er I dwell, I dwell with Thee,    In H...