Words wither and blogs fade away…
Forgive me if you’ve heard this song before, but I've decided to stop blogging at He is Sufficient. I truly appreciate all of the wit, wisdom and words of faith that you have shared with me over the past few years. I wish you well in all of your endeavors, whatever they may be and wherever they may lead you. “God is sufficient for the needs of His people”. Amen!
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Ethical philosophy
I think I’ve forgotten almost everything I learned in college about ethical philosophy, but at least now I know that Leviathan isn’t required re-reading…
Here are my results:
1.
Kant (100%) Information link
2.
Prescriptivism (84%) Information link
3.
Jeremy Bentham (78%) Information link
4.
Jean-Paul Sartre [...]
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Wrapping up the weekend
I didn’t have a lot of time to keep up with blogging this past week, as our church had its Christmas concert this past Friday and Sunday. A little bit of everything for everyone: choir, orchestra, kids’ program, handbells, Christmas hymns, etc… I was playing trombone in the orchestra, which was a nice change of [...]
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Inerrancy in translation?
In his latest Bible impression, that of the NASB, Gary reminded me of an earlier comment I made to the effect of “a lot of NASB people tend to view the NASB almost as if it were the original manuscripts.” For the purposes of this rant discussion, I want to expand that characterization to include [...]
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Bible impressions
Gary Zimmerli has been posting his personal “impressions” of current Bible translations on his blog, A Friend of Christ. To date, he’s posted on Bibles from the Tyndale translation tradition, that is, Bibles that would primarily fall in the category of “the tradition of interpretation” of the three-legged translation stool I discussed earlier:
KJV/NKJV
RSV
NRSV
ESV
NASB
Gary’s honesty [...]
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A visual introduction to the TNIV Reference Bible
Thanks to the generosity of the folks at Zondervan, I’ve had a chance to put my hands on the new TNIV Reference Bible earlier than expected. Rick Mansfield put together an excellent “hands on” review of this edition and I would echo many of the thoughts there, as well as repeat what I wrote earlier. [...]
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DMHO: One of the final three bands
Well, thanks to the spoilers posted earlier this week, I had learned that Denver and the Mile High Orchestra survived yet another week of The Next Great American Band and are now one of three bands left from the 12 finalists that opened the reality show. I didn’t get to watch the show this week [...]
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Buzzwinkle
You might be an Alaskan … if you don’t understand what’s so exciting about seeing a moose wandering through the middle of town.
The Anchorage Daily News reported last month about a local moose who tangled his antlers in strands of Christmas lights and got buzzed on fermented crab apples after wandering through downtown Anchorage…
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Essay question: The Marriage of Christ
Essay question:
In Genesis 2:24, it is written: “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and attaches himself to his wife, and the two become one.” In Revelation 21:9b, it is written: “‘Come,’ he said, and I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.’”
Regardless of your interpretation of who “the [...]
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The Oxford Study Bible
Rick Mansfield’s guest author “Larry” has evidently discontinued his promising series on Study Bibles with only three of the original ten titles completed. My bookshelf has been enriched by the addition of the Jewish Study Bible that Larry reviewed and I was looking forward to learning about the other titles.
One of those promised titles was [...]
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In all things, give thanks…