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The sins of the whole world II
Picking up, again on this CHN article. The Bible is quite clear that it’s a fair question. Jesus did die for the sins of the whole world. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life”.Just a small exegetical observation.
At last, I can buy good Kenyan again
I’m delighted to see that Steve Leighton, proprietor of HasBean coffee has finally managed to find a Kenyan good enough to stock. He drinks Kenyan at home, and basically will not buy one unless it has such a “wow” factor that he can’t get over how good it is.
Well, there have been no Kenyan coffees at HasBean for some time – nothing up to Steve’s standards. But at last we can buy Kenya Ragati from him. Sounds good, and I trust him – but I’ll still buy a 250g bag of green to see what I think for myself.
Hebrew Weak Verbs
Ros wanted a copy of the sheet I prepared whilst at college summarising the morphological changes that take place when conjugating the 9 classes of weak verb.
Here it is Ros, and anybody else who’s interested: Weak Verb Summary Sheet
"A visit required three days"
Thank you Mark Dever, in The Message of the Old Testament for this that I’ve never seen before:
Practicalities of organising the music for a church meeting
Andrew Towner is very helpful on how a band leader can best serve the whole church.
The Semi-Pelagian Narrower Catechism
The sins of the whole world
Now that’s provocative. That’s also one bright seven year old.
What’s wrong with the lolly-bag illustration? Two things come to my mind.
The Message of the Old Testament
I'm finishing off preparations for a training day I'm leading on Saturday, entitled "Preaching Christ from the Old Testament".
The bookstall arrived today. The good John Telford, manager of Wesley Owen on Wigmore Street in London, was tremendously helpful in recommending titles for me and finding ones that our local Christian bookshops said they wouldn't be able to sell. Thank you John, and an excellent parcel of books it is. Shame the Griedanus is temporally unavailable.
Anyway, why did I not know of Mark Dever's The Message of the Old Testament before now? It was only published in May, so fair enough. But Mark sets out, for each Old Testament book, to print a sermon on the entire book. A brave project, but oh so helpful. So thank you Mark Dever too.
Living in Sodom, indeed - and Babylon
Thanks, again, David for this:
http://davidpfield.blogspot.com/2006/09/living-in-sodom.html
Indeed! And I remain convinced that one of the most important books of Scripture to teach our children is the book of Daniel.
"But you would say that", I hear. Yes - but which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Indeed! And I remain convinced that one of the most important books of Scripture to teach our children is the book of Daniel.