The church in OT times
I’m sure Mark Horne is right in his post Israel was not (all of) the Church over at the new Biblical Horizons Blog.
It’s not a long post, so I won’t summarise it – I’d do it a dis-service. Just go and read it.
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James's Weblog
Assert. Defeat. Destroy.
Exodus 7-15, there is a pattern.
Egypt asserts her might as the enemy of God and his people (7-11)
God defeats Egypt (12-13)
God destroys his defeated enemy (14-15)
That’s a pattern that recurs.
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From Kwik Save to Tesco
Whilst doubtless local feelings are mixed (they always are), I think it’s exciting that Audley now has its own branch of Tesco. It’s not very big. But it’s there. Tesco Express Audley opened its doors at 8am this morning, and from now on will be open 7 days, 6am-11pm. Hurrah!
There are plenty of people out there who are Tesco Haters.
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Infant Baptism
I’ve been enjoying reading all of James Cary’s posts on the subject of baptism. His most recent post on infant baptism is paticularly fine and worth reading. It’s refreshing to read some clarity on this.
There are now about 5 posts on this subject, all worth a read.
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Environmentalism as Religion, part 2
Linking my two previous posts. That is:
Really we shouldn’t be surprised by the way we treat the environment. Here is the heart of human sin
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Romans 1: A Fair Exchange
Romans 1:18-32: We, the human race, have suppressed the knowledge of God that we all have. We all have it because God has made his existence, deity and power known in his creation. The creation is his conscious handwriting intended to communicate to us. We have done so effectively, such that Paul can say we all knew God. The problem is not ignorance, it is culpable suppression of what we know.
God’s temporal judgement for this is to hand us over to self-harming sin. The human-race is constantly attempting to self-destruct; Romans 1 interprets this as God taking off the reins.
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Environmentalism as religion
I always enjoy reading David Field’s posts on topics such as global warming and the environment.
The post he put up this morning, entitled A Collective Madness is particularly enjoyable. He is quoting two paragraphs from The Spectator, but I particularly enjoyed the phrase
“Environmentalism has become the new religion.”
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The gospel is not a joke
I find Genesis 19:14 one of the most sobering, and scary, verses in the whole Bible.
“So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, ‘Up! Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city.’ But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.”
Tragic
But surely that’s just the Old Testament, right?
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Pitta Bread?
I get so many bizarre search-engine queries leading to hits on my websites that there are too many to mention.
But one of my favourites has to be the one from today: the person searching for why do pitta breads last so long who ended up on the website for Edible Words
Each to their own!
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Biblical Theology of Jonah 1
Yes, I’m back in Jonah 1 again!
What happens if we take the view that Jonah represents Israel?
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