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

Saturday, May 31, 2025

Jesus Is Calling (Crosby)

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434 Jesus Is Calling 1 Jesus is tenderly calling thee home-    Calling today, calling today;    Why from the sunshine of love wilt thou roa...
Friday, May 30, 2025

The Trinity did it!

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The important thing for our discussion here is Paul's announcement ( kerygma ) that God, in the person of his sinless Son, put himself v...

Let Jesus Come into Your Heart

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433 Let Jesus Come into Your Heart 1 If you are tired of the load of your sin,    Let Jesus come into your heart;    If you desire a new li...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Cleanse Me (Search me, O God)

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425 Cleanse Me 1 Search me, O God, and know my heart today;    try me, O Savior, know my thoughts, I pray.    See if there be some wicked w...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Public theater

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In a sense, crucifixion was a form of entertainment. Everyone understood that the specific role of the passersby was to exacerbate the dehuman...

At Calvary

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415 At Calvary 1 Years I spent in vanity and pride,    Caring not my Lord was crucified,    Knowing not it was for me He died on Calvary. ...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Nobody expected it!

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The most radical of all perspectives on the cross will become clear to us if we reflect on the relation between the Old and New Testaments in...

Tozer for Tuesday

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I am afraid our lukewarmness about the person of Christ is a great proof that we do not know very much about Him in personal experience. I t...

Under His Wings

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412 Under His Wings 1 Under His wings I am safely abiding.    Tho' the night deepens and tempests are wild,    Still I can trust Him; I...
Monday, May 26, 2025

What's missing?

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First Corinthians 1:18-25 draws us into the heart of the difficulty that third-millennium Christians share with those of the first century. ...

Am I a Soldier of the Cross

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411 Am I a Soldier of the Cross 1. Am I a soldier of the cross,    a follower of the Lamb,    and shall I fear to own his cause,    or blus...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Who Is on the Lord's Side?

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409 Who Is on the Lord's Side? 1. Who is on the Lord’s side? Who will serve the King?    Who will be His helpers, other lives to bring?...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

I Surrender All

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408 I Surrender All 1 All to Jesus I surrender,    All to Him I freely give;    I will ever love and trust Him,    In His presence daily li...
Friday, May 23, 2025

It's irreligious!

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The crucifixion marks out the essential distinction between Christianity and “religion.” Religion as defined in these pages is either an organ...

Lead Me to Calvary

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407 Lead Me to Calvary 1 King of my life I crown Thee now -    Thine shall the glory be;    Lest I forget Thy thorn-crowned brow,    Lead m...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

It was a skandalon!

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The New Testament witnesses had to fight with all their strength to keep the Lord’s death at the forefront of the preaching, worship, and eth...

Tolstoy's Confession of Faith

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403 Confession of Faith I believe in God, who is for me spirit, love, the principle of all things. I believe that God is in me, as I am i...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

The world was changed!

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The cross, incomparably vindicated by the resurrection, is the novum , the new factor in human experience, the definitive and world-changing ...

Out of my bondage, sorrow and night

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401 Jesus, I Come 1 Out of my bondage, sorrow and night,    Jesus, I come, Jesus, I come;    Into thy freedom, gladness, and light,    Jesu...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Too offensive!

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The central event of Christianity is too offensive and too much against the grain of religious thought as we know it ever to have emerged ou...
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