Saturday, January 27th, 2007
This one has more of a solid narrative from beginning to end.
Both Ezra and Nehemiah read different than the previous books. I'm not sure what the difference is, exactly... God seems less immediately present... As if He is letting this stuff happen, but not talking to the people very much...
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
LOTS of genealogies.
I first noticed that Joab's various murdering sprees weren't mentioned, and he was painted as more of a great helper for David.
Then I noticed that David's various sins weren't reported either (except for the census).
or maybe two pages just got stuck together... but I don't think that is ...
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
How in the world did David ever convince Saul to let him go against Goliath? It shows the desperation/insanity of Saul that he would pick a little kid to fight Goliath...
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Saturday, January 13th, 2007
I think someone should make a Gideon movie...
Favorite Part: beginning of chapter 3:
Now these are the nations which the Lord Left, that He might test Israel by them, that is, all who had not known any of the wars in Canaan (this was only so that the generations of the ...
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
This is Emperor Julian talking about the Christians (i.e. "Atheists")
Atheism [i.e. Christian Faith] has been specially advanced through the loving service rendered to strangers, and through their care for the burial of the dead. It is a scandal that there is not a single Jew who is a beggar and ...
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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
...an open letter to the world. (Inspired by this post)
What follows are the unedited ravings of a pro-life lunatic.
• The best we can expect from a non-theocratic government (i.e. everything but the kingdom of God) is justice. (And we should expect that.)
• Reconciliation only occurs between the living.
• "Social Justice" ...
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
By C.S. Lewis
Pretty good book overall.
I find it hillarious that HarperSanFrancisco puts this quotation from The New Yorker on the front of every C.S. Lewis book they publish:
If wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be among the angles.
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Democrats by birth and education, we ... prefer to think that all nations and individuals start level in the search for God, or even that all religions are equally true. It must be admitted at once that Christianity makes no concessions to this point of view. It does not tell ...
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
Almost all the Christian music (i.e. recent) that I have is praise music. I was looking the other day and found it odd that I couldn't find more than one track that would work as a creed.
Can a statement of belief be worship?
Are creeds only divisive?
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
by Paul G Hiebert
This is a great book. It could be updated (references to the Soviet Union... Statistics projected for 15 years end in 2000... stuff like that) but even with that it is a solid read. It helped me realize certain things that are part of my culture that ...
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
The Da Vinci Decrode
It seems that everyone is reading this book. According to Facebook.com it is the #1 book read by college students (Facebook is a web community site for high-school and college students.) It was in hardcover for freaking ever.
Why?
There are all sorts of books that take pot-shots ...
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
My goal is not to be able to convince you rationally that the scriptures are true, but to convince you that the difficulties you have with them are not rational, they are moral.
--paraphrased from Ravi Zacharias
(please tell me if I changed the meaning in my paraphrase)
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
... but didn't leave them as they had been.
(From Lutheran Hour)
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
You scored as Chalcedon compliant.You are Chalcedon compliant. Congratulations, you're not a heretic. You believe that Jesus is truly God and
truly man and like us in every respect, apart from sin. Officially approved in 451.
Are you a heretic?
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Oof this HTML they gave me is tough to fix... Glad ...
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Friday, December 9th, 2005
Everyone seems to have this one from Bonhoeffer:
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
from Cost of Discipleship
But I was looking for this one:
Christ is still betrayed by the kiss. Wishing to be done with him means always to fall down with the mockers and say, 'Greetings ...
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Monday, December 5th, 2005
Just got done with Theology is for Proclamation by Gerhard Forde. It is a pretty radical book. It is a systematic theology that focuses on proclamation of what God said to us instead of explanation about God. Forde also lays out a strong attack against Decision Theology and anything ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
I took a step back and re-categorized the list. Now it is in three parts: Soteriological: having to do with Salvation. Non-Soteriological: not having to do with salvation, or one step removed. ??- I'm not sure.
My bias here is that "Having to do with Salvation" means to me "Having to ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
This list is really catching my desire to write, so I went back through and tried to define each term.
I had a little trouble in forming each definition the same way. Some are short positive statements of doctrine, which I may or may not agree with (e.g. Trinity). Some ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
So I found this list of terms that have been involved in church division. I divided them (no pun intended) into three categories, Important, Not important, and Inane.
Important are those that I would be excited to discuss with people, and think are worthwhile theological concepts. If I went to ...
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