Archive for April, 2008

Zondervan’s Reader’s Hebrew Bible: Yes Please!

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

I hope to get one of these beauties and review it in the very near future. Thanks, Between Two Worlds. Watch this spot, or not and just check back.

10 Activities The Pope Couldn’t Find Time For On His Recent Visit To The U.S.A.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

(HT: Woot)

Convene a panel of bishops to determine the correct canonical position on the question of who makes Philly’s best cheesesteak
Go to Eastern Orthodox cathedral, ring the doorbell, run away giggling
Visit the UN to request that the Papal See be upgraded to a Papal B Minus
Trade outfits with a pauper that, for some reason, looks [...]

Andy Davis on Sanctification at Capitol Hill Baptist Church

Friday, April 18th, 2008

I was surprised and delighted to find a sermon/talk hiding in my mp3 player in the Capitol Hill Baptist Church podcast folder. The speaker: my pastor, Andy Davis. He took leave last summer to work on a book on sanctification which I guess he’s had incubating for quite some time. Almost a month ago, at [...]

I Heart Dagesh

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

I’ve decided that I love dagesh even though gutturals don’t so much (though aleph does get its dagesh on in Leviticus 23:17). Today I praise God for the Masoretes and their similar love for the dagesh. For without them today would not even be possible. The dagesh doubles the fun. The dagesh hints at the [...]

She Shall Be Saved through Childbearing

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

1 Timothy 2:13-15 (ESV)
For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
And Adam was not deceived
but the woman was deceived
and became a transgressor
Yet she will be saved through childbearing
if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control
“Yet she will be saved through childbearing” makes the most sense in light of the woman becoming a transgressor [...]

Stormy Wind Does His Word

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Matthew 8:23-27:
23 And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. 24 And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. 25 And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing.” 26 And he [...]