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: January 2008
An exegetical critique of full preterism?
In an appendix to his book, Postmillennialism: An Eschatology of Hope (1999), Keith A. Mathison writes an article titled “A Brief Critique of Full Preterism”. It is natural for him to address this topic, as a large number of preterists, including Mathison himself, identify themselves as postmillennialists, though these (and he) are “partial-preterists” who do [...]
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Theologians I know nothing of…
HT: Peter Kirk
There’s a certain perverse irony in taking a survey quiz to find out “Which theologian are you?” when I am certain to know little if anything about the results. If nothing else, it provides more fodder for my reading list…
Which theologian are you?
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You scored as Anselm. Anselm is the outstanding theologian [...]
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Revival
“But when they told Jacob all that Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.” (Genesis 45:27, HCSB)
In conjunction with his ongoing series on Joseph, our pastor had an interesting definition of revival that I thought was worth [...]
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REB: secret vs mystery
A few days late now, but I wanted to mention a mention of the Revised English Bible in a post on MetaCatholic with regards to the translation of μυστήριον in the New Testament. Unlike most modern translations, the REB prefers to use “secret” to “mystery” in the majority of translation points. Doug then summarizes the [...]
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Pizza and me
HT: Peter Kirk
What Your Pizza Reveals
You have a hearty appetite. You are likely to complain if a restaurant has small portions.You aren’t particularly picky about pizza. It’s so good… how could you be? You fit in best in the Western part of the US.You like food that’s traditional and well crafted. You aren’t impressed with [...]
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0.045% is the new black
New material pushes the boundary of blackness
CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. researchers said on Tuesday they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light.
Made from tiny tubes of carbon standing on end, this material is almost 30 times darker than a carbon substance used by [...]
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And Eve said, “I hate mice!”
Scientists find 2,000 pound rodent – luckily it’s a fossil
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists in Uruguay have found the fossil remains of a 2,000 pound (1,000 kg) rodent that lived 2 million to 4 million years ago — the largest rodent ever found.
The giant creature probably ate soft food such as fruit or tender plants, Andres [...]
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When were these things written?