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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

The cities of Simeon: How many?

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Q . How many cities were given to the children of Simeon for their inheritance? My English Standard Version translation, in Joshua 19:2-6 , ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Pastors, Parents, and Worldviews

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The American Worldview Inventory 2022 Study of Parents and Pastors provides “ shocking results concerning the worldview of Christian pastor...
Monday, June 13, 2022

King James translators versus modern text critics

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Differences in approach of the King James translators versus some modern text critics. Spiritual versus secular. “And in what sort did the...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

New mercies

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John Keble wrote “Morning” (based on Lamentations 3:22-23 ) circa 1827, and printed The Christian Year, Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays a...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Gun violence victim’s mother, and other links

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The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts link...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Menno rolls over

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Mennonite Church USA passes resolution committing to LGBTQ inclusion The Mennonite Church USA repealed instructions to pastors not to offi...
Thursday, June 09, 2022

The chief instrument that must be engaged, and other quotes

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The posting of quotes by human authors does not constitute agreement with either the quotes or their sources. (I try to confirm the sources ...
Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Stephen M. Reynolds, the Comma, and Credentialism

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Back in 2017, I posted a grammatical argument in favour of the Johannine Comma ( 1 John 5:7 ) made by Stephen Edward Mills Reynolds (1909-...
Tuesday, June 07, 2022

David, a man after God’s own heart

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Q . How was David as a man after God’s own heart?  But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own hear...
Monday, June 06, 2022

“Blended” Worship

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“The most significant point about ‘blended worship’ to me is the inescapable and amazing irony of it. The people who use it would argue that...
Sunday, June 05, 2022

The Banner of the King

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Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus wrote “Vexilla regis prodeunt” / “The Royal Banners Forward Go”. He was born in Italy circa AD 5...
Saturday, June 04, 2022

In other words, at the behest of abeyance

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abeyance , noun. A state of temporary inactivity. behest , noun. An authoritative order or an urgent prompting. catena , noun. A chain or co...
Friday, June 03, 2022

Glorious to pass over an offense

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Isaiah 29:21 “That make a man an offender for a word,...” “Inadvertently spoken, unwarily dropped, without any bad design or ill meaning; o...
Thursday, June 02, 2022

These little ones

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Oh, the heartbreak to view these little faces . Matthew 19:14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me...

Methodism slowly divides, and other links

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Wednesday, June 01, 2022

Simon the Canaanite, an apostle

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Q . Why is the other apostle named Simon called a Canaanite in Matthew 10:4 and Mark 3:18 ? A . This Simon receives a designation to dist...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

The Rod of God and Moses

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Moses and the call of God Exodus 4:2-4, 17 There is a rod in Moses’s hand Exodus 4:20 Moses’s rod is also the rod of God The rod is associat...
Monday, May 30, 2022

9 Things You May Not Know About Memorial Day

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9 Things You May Not Know About Memorial Day , from History.com. In May 1868, General John A. Logan, the commander-in-chief of the Union vet...

Chiasm and TR

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“I think that word counts strongly support the Textus Receptus – a conclusion noted by others too including Gioacchino Michael Cascione in h...
Sunday, May 29, 2022

Our dear Lord has mixt the cup

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In December of 1832 and 1833, Gilbert and Phebe Ann Cunningham Beebe lost two children, first 1-year old James Moore Beebe and then 6-year ...