Archive for June, 2007
SonScreen
Friday, June 29th, 2007This summer, avoid burning with the power of the Son.
Is it just me, or does this sort of church sign take things the wrong direction? Is the very best advertisement about following Jesus that you will not end up in eternal lostness and death and in hell?
When people try to sell something, they put the […]
Thoughts on Exodus 10: Locust and Darkness
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007"No one who has ever seen the locust at work accuses the Biblical account of hyperbole." linkIn Genesis 8, locust flood through all of Egypt, essentially destroying all plant life in Egypt, including the crops that Pharaoh had thought would still be their salvation after the hail. Exodus describes it as, "there remained nothing green […]
Latin Words
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007The first discipline is listening. The word listening in Latin is audire. And if you listen with great attention the words are ob audire. That is the word for "obedience." The word obedience means listening. If you are not listening, you are deaf. The Latin word for deaf is surdus, and if you're actually deaf, […]
Thoughts from Exodus 9: Hail-fire
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007In Exodus 9, the plagues increase in severity. No more mere annoyances. While the other plagues were hard, such as water being scarce, or frogs, or gnats, these next plagues are starting to truly impair life in Egypt to the point of true hunger, and not even being able to live. Before we get started, though, […]