Wednesday, December 12, 2012

What does "the old is better" mean in Luke 5:39?

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When preaching Sunday before last on Luke 5:27-39 , I was intrigued by the conclusion to the "parable" (vv. 36-39) of the new ...
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Luke 5:35 and Fasting

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Sunday before last in my sermon on Luke 5:27-39 , we reflected on the Bible's teaching on fasting, especially related to v. 35.  Her...
Friday, December 07, 2012

Text Note: Luke 5:39

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The issues : From the top, we might note that this entire verse is omitted in some strands of the Western tradition (D, Marcion, Iren...
Thursday, December 06, 2012

John Owen on the Inspiration and Preservation of Scripture

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I’m working my way again through John Owen’s “Of the Integrity and Purity of the Hebrew and Greek Text of Scripture” ( Collected Works ,...

The Vision (12/6/12): CRBC Midweek Winter Home Fellowships

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CRBC Midweek Winter Home Fellowships Second Fridays at 6:30 pm     December 14, 2012   Meeting at the Woolfolk’s home (in...

Text Note: Luke 5:30

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The issue: There is an interesting and easy to overlook textual variation in Luke 5:30. Traditional text: “ But their scribes an...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Film Note: Tender Mercies

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OK, so I am reluctant to mention or recommend any mainstream films (or perhaps I should say any films in general).   I am almost persua...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

For Sale: Bay Psalm Book (Fair condition; rarely used in recent days)

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  There was an interesting story this evening on NPR's "All Things Considered" on " The First Book Ever Printed in ...
Monday, December 03, 2012

2012 Fuller Conference Audio

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    When I've had time of late, I've been listening the audio messages from the 6th annual Andrew Fuller Conference held at ...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

The Vision (11/29/12): Two Pictures of Man's State Apart from Christ

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In last Sunday’s sermon from Luke 5:12-26 , one of the closing applications was a call to consider the leper and the paralytic as figures ...

A Presbyterian and a Reformed Baptist talk Baptism

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

"The Screwtape Letters" on the Historical Jesus

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In C. S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, the demon Screwtape writes to his junior colleague Wordwood about how best to disuade a young ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Thoughts on the historicity of Jesus

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I’m still doing reading in the field of “the quest of the historical Jesus” and just finished reviewing one of the texts I’ll use for th...

Godet on leprosy

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Note:  I preached Sunday from  Luke 5:12-26 on the accounts of the healing of the leper (vv. 12-16) and the paralytic (vv. 17-26).  In e...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Schweitzer on Jesus

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Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) was a modern day renaissance man.   He made his mark in no less than three fields:   as a New Testament s...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Evangelism Series (Part Five): Thomas Boston: Ten Ways Ministers Are Like Fishers

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  Note:   This is another post in an ongoing series on Biblical evangelism.  For an archive of past posts, click the "Evangelis...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

A Brief History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

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From the Answering Muslims blog: