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Monday, September 12, 2022

“Why I Preach from the Received Text” quotes

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Below find 25 quotes by 25 authors from 25 chapters of Why I Preach from the Received Text . “The Bible teaches that the triune God is the p...

Worship, by Brian Crossley

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When the Creator of heaven and earth performed the final act of creation, it was His pleasure to create man in His own image. In all of crea...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Charles Wesley on Psalm XII

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Psalm XII. Charles Wesley . 1. Help, O, Lord! the faithful fail, Scarce a man continues just. Shall the gates of hell prevail? Shall the chu...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

In other words, ballast to umlaut

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ballast , noun. Anything that gives mental, moral, or political stability or steadiness; gravel, broken stone, slag, , etc., placed between ...

A Simple Guide to Family Worship, 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, September 09, 2022

Quotable quotes from Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Quotes from David Martyn Lloyd-Jones , who was both a Welsh evangelical minister and a medical doctor. He was long-time pastor of Westminste...
Thursday, September 08, 2022

Tyndale’s 1526 Preface

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Preface to the 1526 translation of the New Testament, by William Tyndale: “Give diligence, reader (I exhort thee) that thou come with a pu...
Wednesday, September 07, 2022

Behind the Pine Curtain

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“That sounds like home to me sounds like home to me, like where I want to be.” “The people who live in the pine woods of Eastern Texas are v...

The great fundamental of a Baptist church, 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 ...
Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Ephesians 2:20 and preservation of the Scriptures

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Ephesians 2:20 and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone ; I apply t...
Monday, September 05, 2022

Thou shalt keep the Scriptures

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A writer before Benjamin Wilkinson uses Psalm 12:6-7 as a proof-text concerning the Scriptures, contrary to the collected wisdom of the ant...

An incomprehensible Creator and a comprehensible idol

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We have to choose whether we will accept the biblical doctrine of Scripture as it stands or permit ourselves to refashion it according to ou...
Sunday, September 04, 2022

Luther’s metrical Psalm 12

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Above are stanzas 5 and 6 (in German) from a hymn by Martin Luther on Psalm 12, beginning in the first stanza “Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh dar...
Saturday, September 03, 2022

A critic of the sacred book

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From “ The Progress of Error ” by William Cowper And of all arts sagacious dupes invent, To cheat themselves and gain the world’s assent, Th...
Friday, September 02, 2022

Journal Jots on KJVO

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The two following briefs come from Canadian newspapers in the 1950s. The first is excerpted from an article about some ordinations in the Un...
Thursday, September 01, 2022

“We” do not know

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I have on a few occasions quoted a leading New Testament scholar, Dan Wallace, (e.g., here and here ) on his doubts about ever knowing “exa...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Who is Naughty and Nice

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Yesterday I posted about the “ Pick-a-Bible ” syndrome and its relationship to a post-truth society. Today I consider the “naughty vs. nice”...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

The “Pick-a-Bible” mentality

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Many people say we are living in a post-truth society. I am not sure I even understand exactly what that means. According to Dictionary.com ...
Monday, August 29, 2022

California Appeals Court, 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...

The embarrassing ignoring of the embarrassment of riches

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In a reply to an ETC blog on the embarrassment of riches , James Snapp, Jr. wrote the following. He makes an excellent point, despite the n...