October 2009
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Migrated by me!
Dear Readers
Though you are small in number, I appreciate you stoping by and reading my posts. I have now merged all the posts from this blog into my older WordPress version of Found By You where I will continue to blog.
See you there!
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September 2009
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NLT's Mosaic releases today! →
NLT’s Holy Bible: Mosaic launches today and ‘is about helping you encounter Christ in a deep and authentic way, through insight from every continent and century of the Christian Church. Historical and contemporary art and writings from across the globe offer a depth of Scriptural wisdom and understanding as you read and reflect on God’s word. Mosaic is arranged so that every week has...
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“What a man is on his knees before God, that he is, and nothing more.”
– Robert Murray McCheyne
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“Prayer rubs us against God. Our internal alignment changes. The magnetic...”
– Why Don’t I Get What I Pray For? by John Cowart
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Leave your native country
In amongst family, friends and church, I am trying to make sure that I do a little personal bible study each weekend. At the moment, I’m working my way through the LifeGuide Bible Study entitled Faith: Depending On God. This weekend’s study was ‘Abraham: Faith Under Construction’ and focuses on Genesis 12:1-9.
The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your...
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“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in...”
– The End of Life by Philip James Bailey via midtoad’s tweet of The American Review Vol.2 in Google Books.
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“A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became...”
– Christian Discourses by Søren Kierkegaard
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“When it comes to a question of our forgiving other people, it is partly the same...”
– “On Forgiveness” (The Weight of Glory) by C.S. Lewis
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Differences between Translations #2 →
Ben Witherington writing on Beliefnet about the forthcoming 2011 NIV Bible and the politics behind bible translation.
Hitching through The Bible
As a simple but authoritative overview of the Bible, I have found ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Bible: Thumbing through the Old and New Testaments’ by Colin Sinclair to be very useful. Despite the lightweight title, the book is a marvellously detailed resource and provides a full overview of The Bible and how the books relate to one another. It receives good reviews from and...
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"Sorry, you deserved so much better."
It took the Catholic Church over 350 years to recognise it had been wrong about Galileo’s theories and for Pope John Paul II to issue a reversal of his condemnation. By comparison, the 57 years it has taken the British Government to apologise to Alan Turing might seem quick but I’d argue otherwise.
This week, the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown released a statement concerning...
“Affluent lifestyle creates related expectations, so when we develop an addiction...”
– Rob Frost Doing the Right Thing: 10 issues on which Christians have to take a stand Monarch Books 2008
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Spiritual Gifts
A while back, I competed a spiritual gifts questionnaire and I was intrigued not only by the results but more so by my initial reaction to them. The top three - exhortation, hospitality and mercy - are not what I would have guessed, or rather, are words/gifts that I haven’t really considered in relation to myself before. Following these are two same-scored sets of four seemingly...
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Differences between Translations →
Three interesting NLT blog posts exploring some of the differences between the NLT and other translations and looking at underlying differences between dynamic equivalence (“word-for-word”) translations and formal equivalence (“essentially literal”) translations.
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Biblical call plan, anyone?
Just found a note of a funny exchange I had with my mobile phone company a few years back...
Me: Can you please just put me back on the basic off-peak call plan?
Vodafone: “Ah, so you’d be wanting to go on to Gethsemane then?”
Me: “Sorry?!”
Vodafone: “You’re wanting to go on to Gethsemane then?”
Me: “Gethsemane?”
Vodafone: “No - Get 70 - the Get 70 call plan!”
Me: “Ah...yes, please.”
“Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may...”
– St. Augustine
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Peeking round the church door
If, as our Pastor preached last week, my life’s map is drawn by God, then that map has been coloured in by my children.
One’s personal salvation is unique - an amalgam of emotion, spirit, enlightenment, sensation and faith, brought together in one time and one place - just for that individual.
For some, salvation is found in the charged atmosphere of an altar call, for others it comes amid the...